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In message <20060627201148.GC24054@garage.freebsd.pl>, Pawel Jakub Dawidek writ
es:

>I wrote this twice already in this thread, but let me write it again.
>File systems are not the whole world. For example. I've a disk ad0.
>I configured gbde(4) on top of it. I create file system on top of
>ad0.bde. Now, let's assume I implemented shrinkfs(8) as you suggested,
>how can I shrink gbde(4) provider?

You can't.

Face it, somethings in life are not possible.

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