Re: Need help; safe way to shrink my fedora38 installation disk
On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 2:22 PM KarlderLetzte <karlderletzte(a)holnishaus.de wrote:
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George N. White III
hello everybody,
i need some space on disk for a second installation.
therefore i want to safely shrink my fedora installation.
here is the disk layout:
[...]
my question:
is there a safe way to shrink?
The only safe way to shrink is to have a backup. Shrink is I/O intensive
and has
a much higher probability of revealing any weaknesses in hardware or
software
than normal operations where weaknesses may remain undiscovered for a long
time. Also note that running a filesystem with too little free space slows
down
file operations and also increases the probability that weaknesses will be
revealed.
See: <
https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-filesystem.html#man-filesyst...
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