Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 21:03:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Jesse Manning <knightmare@cyberdude.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition resizing under FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980505210308.9802O-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980506101754.F14746@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Wed, 6 May 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > You can't resize partitions without doing it the hard way -- backup, > > newfs, restore. > > Just yesterday Julian Elischer pointed out that there is a utility to > resize ufs file system. Here's a copy of the relevant parts of the > original message: Huh, interesting. > This is pure source. "Some assembly required". If you try this > program without first backing up all data, you'd have to be stark > screaming mad. I'll steer clear for now :) > > For efficiency the UFS filesystem makes full use of the space you > > give it. It's not like FAT that fills the disk incrementally. > > I'm not sure what you're saying here, but I suspect you mean that ufs > lays out data across the total partition, whereas FAT starts at the > beginning and allocates data sequentially. Certainly both use the > entire partition until told to do differently. Yes, that's what I meant. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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