Subject: Re: Growing a filesystem?
To: Dan Harrison <macman20001@mac.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/27/2003 19:39:02
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 10:02:29AM -0600, Dan Harrison wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I used to use FreeBSD and it had growfs, that nice little utility 
> which would do all of the work of reallocating space to that unused. 
> You could just destory a partition (a partition, rather than a silce) 
> and just growfs to fill it. But I can't find anything like that in 
> NetBSD.
> 
> Is there a way to increase the size of a filesystem without 
> repartitioning, or at least without destorying all of the data?

There is a resize_ffs in src/sbin/, but it's not built by default yet.
You can probably retrieve it from current sources and try to build it.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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