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Quoting Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> (Thu, 3 Aug 2006 14:48:24 +0200 (CEST)):

> But then again, harddisks tend to get bigger, so there is
> probably not much need for a shrinkfs tool.

Sometimes it's not an availability decision... think about EMC,
disk pools and changing requirements in an environment where the
decision makers know enough to use their desktop system.

Bye,
Alexander.

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