[afnog] Resize FreeBSD partition

Phil Regnauld regnauld at x0.dk
Fri Sep 2 00:12:10 EAT 2005


On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:07:45AM -1000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > Resizing partitions which contain data that you want to keep
> > is tricky.
> 
> given how unix partitions are utilized, 'tricky' should be
> rephrased as 'not doable.'

	Growing the FS is doable -- UFS2 has it (man growfs).

	XFS, JFS and possibly new versions of ReiserFS have this possibility
	on the fly -- but they were designed with this kind of usage in mind.

	Shrinking is a whole different game :)



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