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FSRESIZE

Section: System Administrator's Manual (8)
Updated: January 2 1999
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NAME

fsresize (liposuck) - resize FAT filesystems  

WARNING

This is unstable software, and should only be used for testing and development.  

SYNOPSIS

fsresize [-h] [--help]

         [<partition> -i]

         <partition> [<new-size>[km]] [-b <backup-file>]

         <partition> -r <backup-file>  

DESCRIPTION

fsresize resizes FAT based partitions under Linux. It resizes partition to new-size. new-size is in kilobytes by default, or megabytes if followed by M or m.

While fsresize checks for obvious filesystem errors, it is not comprehensive. You should always run dosfsck(8) and back up all important information before using this program. The --backup options has never failed me - but you never know.

Note to lilo users: I haven't figured out how lilo(8) works yet - until I do, I recommend you run it after using fsresize (usually done by typing /sbin/lilo).

Note to Windows 9x users: you should turn off the swap file before running this program.

 

OPTIONS


-b, --backup <backup-file>
Backs up the filesystem to backup-file. If a new filesystem size is specified, will backup before modifying the filesystem. The backup file should be quite small, and fit on a floppy disk.


-i, --info
Displays some information about the filesystem


-r, --restore <backup-file>
Restores the filesystem to its original size and representation after a resize, from backup-file. This may not work if changes to the filesystem have been made since the fsresize was invoked.

 

EXAMPLES

fsresize /dev/hda9 -i
fsresize /dev/hda2 324M --backup=dosc.backup
fsresize /dev/hda1 5654k
fsresize /dev/hda3 2545
fsresize /dev/hda5 --restore dosd.backup

 

BUGS

FAT tables can't be resized, restricting the new size of the filesystem. Filesytems can only be grown or shrunk from the same start-point.  

SEE ALSO

dosfsck(8), mkfs.msdos(8), fs(5).  

AUTHOR

Andrew Clausen <clausen@alphalink.com.au>

fsresize uses libfdisk written by Michael Fulbright <msf@redhat.com> at Red Hat Software to modify the partition table.

The guts of fsresize are in libresize - a library for resizing filesystems. It's GPL'd - feel free to use it in your distribution's install program.

 

Index

NAME
WARNING
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
BUGS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
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