[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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