customer: “please resize our disk space by 100G”
me: sees disk layout below on the qemu in question grmlrmlgrml figgt euch doch alle…

someone was very drunk when setting this thing up, huh

@puniko the sda2 and sda5 seem to overlap? They have the same ending 🥴 didn’t know that’s possible

@puniko ext4 boot partition? 😖

@makuru the entier system lives on sda1. no clue what sda2 is used for. its not mounted or anything. and swap at the end always sucks

@Johann150 oh lol, yeah

@puniko atleast one can get ride of swap without risking data loss.

@makuru ye but still: wth

@puniko interested in explanation what is the output means?

@txt_file no, i know what it means

@puniko lul :3

@ori tägliche arbyte und so

@puniko @makuru what sucks about swap at the end? (actually don't know, I don't think about partition layouts much)

@flandrescarlet @puniko @makuru the heads have to fly that much further to read or write data. 20 years ago this would impart noticeable latency to your system. nowadays i suggest running zram if your only option for swap is spinning rust.

in fact, i still suggest zram unless your use case precludes it somehow.

but if you’re stuck with mechanical drives and zram isn’t appropriate, putting swap in to a shared LVM VG (like the same one that holds /) will greatly improve access time, too.

@purple @flandrescarlet @makuru also on virtual machines its annoying to resize partition of swap is at the end