From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 14 09:44:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA00578 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:44:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hq.freegate.com (freegate.com [208.226.86.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA00570 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:44:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ravi@freegate.com) Received: (qmail+freegate 14747 invoked by alias); 14 Jul 1998 16:44:04 -0000 Received: from ws3-n0.hq.freegate.com (HELO ravi.hq.freegate.com) (208.226.86.131) by hq.freegate.com with SMTP; 14 Jul 1998 16:44:04 -0000 Reply-To: From: "Ravi Duvvuri" To: "'Terry Lambert'" , Cc: Subject: RE: Compacting FFS filesystem Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:37:19 -0700 Message-ID: <001d01bdaf45$ab9c66c0$8356e2d0@ravi.hq.freegate.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <199807132333.QAA15497@usr08.primenet.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I searched under http://www.freebsd.org/search.html#mailinglists but could not find any thing. Can you post the URL? or give me anyother pointers to this. Thankx -Ravi -----Original Message----- From: Terry Lambert [mailto:tlambert@primenet.com] Sent: Monday, July 13, 1998 4:34 PM To: ravi@freegate.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compacting FFS filesystem > Is there any way to reduce the size of an existing FFS filesystem partition > without losing data. I want to reparation the existing drive so that > the new partition size is equal (or close) to the actual number of used > blocks in the partition. I need to do this without dumping the filesystem > to tape or some other backup media. Yes. Theo DeRaddt wrote some code to do this. Check the -current list archives on ww.freebsd.org, where it was discussed at length in a thread on logical volume management. I posted the URL, but I don't have it in the bookmarks of my current desktop. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message