From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 7 11:59:44 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6098516A4CE for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:59:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from pd4mo1so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52ABA43D2F for ; Sat, 7 Feb 2004 11:59:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com) Received: from pd3mr1so.prod.shaw.ca (pd3mr1so-ser.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.177])2003))freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 12:56:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml7so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml7so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.151]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HSQ00LRLCQET0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 12:56:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from francisco.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (h24-87-202-31.vc.shawcable.net [24.87.202.31]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HSQ0083WCQD1J@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 12:56:38 -0700 (MST) Received: from hardesty.hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com ([192.168.23.1]) by francisco.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i17JuBcn077205; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 11:56:12 -0800 Received: from aardvark by hardesty.hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1ApYZL-0000j4-00; Sat, 07 Feb 2004 11:56:47 -0800 Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 11:56:47 -0800 From: Saint Aardvark the Carpeted In-reply-to: Sender: Debian User To: "R. D." Message-id: <20040207195647.GT2197@hardesty.saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i References: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resizing FFS X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 19:59:44 -0000 R. D. disturbed my sleep to write: > Can I decrease size of existing filesystem ( f. e. ad0s3f)? I have > free space on it and want to create new partition. > growfs can only increase size of existing fs. Is FBSD has instrument > such as resize2fs under Linux? >From what I can tell, you're out of luck on this; there doesn't appear to be a tool to shrink filesystems under FreeBSD. The closest thing I found was a reference on a NetBSD mailing list to a tool that can shrink NetBSD filesystems (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2001/11/09/0006.html); unfortunately, I haven't been able to find any other reference to it. Hugh -- Saint Aardvark the Carpeted aardvark@saintaardvarkthecarpeted.com Because the plural of Anecdote is Myth.