Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:15:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Aaron Smith <aaron-fbsd@mutex.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ufs/ffs resize? Message-ID: <199906252115.OAA95464@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199906252100.OAA31969@sigma.veritas.com>
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:anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
:
:aaron
It has been brought up a couple of times but nobody has tried
to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
to be grown or shrunk on a cylinder-by-cylinder basis. The only real
complexity occurs when you are shrinking a filesystem - you have to locate
the inodes & indirect blocks associated with allocated data blocks
in the cylinder you are trying to remove in order to move the blocks.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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