Verifing: CentOS 5 Cannot Resize A *live* Root Filesystem
Just want to verify: CentOS 5’s FS utilities are too old to safely resize a
*live* (mounted, etc.) root file system (and the CentOS 5 installer/rescue system does not include either resize2fs or fsadm utilities).
I am presuming I will need a full-fledged Live CD/DVD to resize the root file system.
This is for an old 32-bit laptop that presently has CentOS 5.11 on it — I
want to shrink the root file system (it is LVM) and make a separate /home file system, then upgrade it to something newer (not C6, since it is not PAE — I’m
*hoping* Ubuntu’s 32-bit installer can deal with a non-PAE 32-bit system).
2 thoughts on - Verifing: CentOS 5 Cannot Resize A *live* Root Filesystem
I don’t know of _any_ filesystem that supports live shrinking. Live expansion, yes. Live shrinking, no. The C5 install/rescue CD and DVD do include resize2fs.
Ubuntu is _not_ one of the few distributions that still support non-PAE
32-bit. From what I can find, Lubuntu and Xubuntu 12.04 were the last versions to support non-PAE. Sorry.
Btrfs supports live shrinking of filesystem.
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18.5.2016 1.00 ap. “Robert Nichols”