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Date:      Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:48:28 +0100
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc:        beaupran@jsp.umontreal.ca, spidey@libdns.qc.ca, sheldonh@iafrica.com, 026809r@dragon.acadiau.ca, fpscha@ns1.sminter.com.ar, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, dscheidt@enteract.com, unicorn@blackhats.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Partition Sites [was Re: ACLs]
Message-ID:  <19990316104827.C3196@bitbox.follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <4155.921570512@verdi.nethelp.no>; from sthaug@nethelp.no on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 08:48:32AM %2B0100
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990315201752.31014H-100000@freed.libdns.qc.ca> <4155.921570512@verdi.nethelp.no>

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On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 08:48:32AM +0100, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
> > It was a joke, and I'll never carry on such a job... I'd rather attack to
> > monstrous task of resizing existing filesystems!!! Thing which I would
> > obviously not be able to accomplish... :)
> 
> There is already a program available that can do most of the job, see
> 
> 	http://www.nethelp.no/scsi/fsresize.c
> 
> (No I didn't write it.)  It gets the cylinder group summary information
> wrong, and this has to be fixed by an fsck. I wouldn't feel comfortable
> using such a system until it got *everything* right...

According to the author (der Mouse), there are more things it gets
wrong.  As far as I understood, he doesn't distribute it except to
people that want it as a basis for further hacking, as it sometimes
eats filesystems.

Eivind.


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