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Support for shrinking filesystem #781

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thememika opened this issue Nov 16, 2024 · 1 comment
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Support for shrinking filesystem #781

thememika opened this issue Nov 16, 2024 · 1 comment

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@thememika
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thememika commented Nov 16, 2024

Shrinking the filesystem seems to be one of very important, core features. For some reason, it's still not even in the Roadmap: https://bcachefs.org/Roadmap
What is the status of this feature, and is it planned at all?
Thanks!

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Nihon-Ryori commented Nov 18, 2024

See the Bcachefs manual (dont have a revision number or date ...):
3.6 Device management
3.6.1 Filesystem resize
A filesystem can be resized on a particular device with the bcachefs device
resize subcommand. Currently only growing is supported, not shrinking.

See also:
GParted added now a first bcachefs support

Shrinking existing bcachefs partition, by console, also need for GParted:

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