Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 11:56:47 -0800 From: Saint Aardvark the Carpeted <aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> To: "R. D." <rdaemon@rambler.ru> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resizing FFS Message-ID: <20040207195647.GT2197@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> In-Reply-To: <web-8488787@mail3.rambler.ru> References: <web-8488787@mail3.rambler.ru>
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R. D. disturbed my sleep to write: > Can I decrease size of existing filesystem ( f. e. ad0s3f)? I have > free space on it and want to create new partition. > growfs can only increase size of existing fs. Is FBSD has instrument > such as resize2fs under Linux? >From what I can tell, you're out of luck on this; there doesn't appear to be a tool to shrink filesystems under FreeBSD. The closest thing I found was a reference on a NetBSD mailing list to a tool that can shrink NetBSD filesystems (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2001/11/09/0006.html); unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any other reference to it. Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.
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