From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 21:03:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA25577 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 21:03:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA25548 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 21:03:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA09884; Tue, 5 May 1998 21:03:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 21:03:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Greg Lehey cc: Jesse Manning , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Partition resizing under FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19980506101754.F14746@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 May 1998, Greg Lehey wrote: > > You can't resize partitions without doing it the hard way -- backup, > > newfs, restore. > > Just yesterday Julian Elischer pointed out that there is a utility to > resize ufs file system. Here's a copy of the relevant parts of the > original message: Huh, interesting. > This is pure source. "Some assembly required". If you try this > program without first backing up all data, you'd have to be stark > screaming mad. I'll steer clear for now :) > > For efficiency the UFS filesystem makes full use of the space you > > give it. It's not like FAT that fills the disk incrementally. > > I'm not sure what you're saying here, but I suspect you mean that ufs > lays out data across the total partition, whereas FAT starts at the > beginning and allocates data sequentially. Certainly both use the > entire partition until told to do differently. Yes, that's what I meant. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message