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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 1998 09:37:19 -0700
From:      "Ravi Duvvuri" <ravi@freegate.com>
To:        "'Terry Lambert'" <tlambert@primenet.com>, <ravi@freegate.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: Compacting FFS filesystem
Message-ID:  <001d01bdaf45$ab9c66c0$8356e2d0@ravi.hq.freegate.com>
In-Reply-To: <199807132333.QAA15497@usr08.primenet.com>

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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
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.


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