Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 23:52:33 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> To: "Mark S. Reichman" <mark@borg.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UFS defragmenter and/or partition resizer? (Wishful thinking?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812082351290.24143-100000@megaweapon.zigg.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981208231848.0069d770@mail.borg.com>
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On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Mark S. Reichman wrote: : I can only relay what I have read on previous posts on : this topic and a little from OS class awhile back. : Defragmentation is a FAT16/32 problem. Unix, from what I : have heard and been taught, : does not suffer from or need a defragmentor. Yeah, I just read up on that too. (Must research before posting.) :) : I just read the other day that under UFS you cannot : resize a partition. Your supposed to get it right : the first time out. If ya need more space, then you : have to make a new partition and mount it. : Now... whether or not thats because : no tool has been written to do it or for some reason : its impossible under UFS, I dont know. I also read up on this. Looks like there used to be a NetBSD program called "fsresize". Apparently it had a bug or two. The link's dead nowadays. Does anyone know about its whereabouts? Matt Behrens <matt@zigg.com> | If only I could learn Japanese and get my Servant of Karen Behrens | hands on all 200 Sailor Moon episodes and Engineer, Nameless IRC Network | all the movies, I think my life would I eat Penguins for breakfast. | finally be complete. . . . . . . . . . . To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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