From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 8 20:52:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA01181 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 20:52:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from megaweapon.zigg.com (megaweapon.zigg.com [206.114.60.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01173 for ; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 20:52:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Received: from localhost (matt@localhost) by megaweapon.zigg.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA24153; Tue, 8 Dec 1998 23:52:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from matt@zigg.com) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 23:52:33 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Behrens To: "Mark S. Reichman" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: UFS defragmenter and/or partition resizer? (Wishful thinking?) In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19981208231848.0069d770@mail.borg.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 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 | 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