From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 13 13:55:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA04355 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:55:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hq.freegate.com (freegate.com [208.226.86.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA04344 for ; Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:55:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ravi@freegate.com) Received: (qmail+freegate 24520 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 1998 20:55:01 -0000 Received: from ws3-n0.hq.freegate.com (HELO ravi.hq.freegate.com) (208.226.86.131) by hq.freegate.com with SMTP; 13 Jul 1998 20:55:01 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Ravi Duvvuri" To: Subject: Compacting FFS filesystem Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 13:48:20 -0700 Message-ID: <000501bdae9f$93eda4e0$8356e2d0@ravi.hq.freegate.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there any way to reduce the size of an existing FFS filesystem partition without losing data. I want to reparation the existing drive so that the new partition size is equal (or close) to the actual number of used blocks in the partition. I need to do this without dumping the filesystem to tape or some other backup media. Ravi Duvvuri To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message