On 11/28/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Tom Bishop</b> <<a href="mailto:bishoptf@gmail.com">bishoptf@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Something to keep in mind, when I was reading about filesystems and LVM, neither JFS and/or XFS can be shrunk if needed. A good example would be you have a failing drive and would like to replace it, I think if you google and look for it you will come across several threads that talk about this.
</blockquote></div><br>I find this unacceptable (as I shrink my lvm partitions every once and a while) so I use reiserfs or ext3 for the most part with lvm unless I am absolutely certain that I will never want to shrink.
<br><br>John<br>