From owner-freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Fri Jun 28 08:11:58 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A90C15DB928 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:11:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from madpilot@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp.freebsd.org (smtp.freebsd.org [96.47.72.83]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "smtp.freebsd.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB5768E7A7; Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:11:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from madpilot@FreeBSD.org) Received: from marvin.madpilot.net (host207-122-dynamic.7-87-r.retail.telecomitalia.it [87.7.122.207]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: madpilot/mail) by smtp.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3A053FC93; Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:11:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from madpilot@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: Possible Error in Italian Handbook To: Alex Fegatilli , "freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org" References: From: Guido Falsi Message-ID: Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 10:11:55 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: AB5768E7A7 X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.97 / 15.00]; local_wl_from(0.00)[FreeBSD.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.97)[-0.973,0]; ASN(0.00)[asn:11403, ipnet:96.47.64.0/20, country:US]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 08:11:58 -0000 On 27/06/19 21:15, Alex Fegatilli wrote: > Hi FreeBSD's Team > > I am a Computer Scientist Student, I am reading the FreeBSD Handbook in > Italian Language > > In Chapter 3 "Unix Basic" paragraph 5 "Disk Organization" there are > there words, I try to translate them in TL;DR : > > "The File Systems have a fixed dimension. If you create once file system > and want to extend any partition, you need to back up your data, format > and extend the partition" > > But in this link https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/disks-growing.html > you can extend partitions without backup, rebuild file system etc... > > > This is a mistake or I have not understood? The official Italian handbook is outdated. It's a translation of an older version of the handbook. The feature of growing disk has been added at a later time and was not present at the time of translation. There is a an effort to make a newer translation but it's going slowly. Any help would be appreciated: https://people.freebsd.org/~madpilot/ItalianTranslation/ -- Guido Falsi