Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sbin/resize_ffs
To: Jonathan Perkin <sketch@rd.bbc.co.uk>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@netbsd.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 02/22/2003 07:46:09
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:42:31AM +0000, Jonathan Perkin wrote:
  | * On 2003-02-21 at 04:14 GMT, John Kohl wrote:
  | 
  | > Module Name:	src
  | > Committed By:	jtk
  | > Date:		Fri Feb 21 04:08:55 UTC 2003
  | > 
  | > Added Files:
  | > 	src/sbin/resize_ffs: Makefile TODO resize_ffs.8 resize_ffs.c
  | > 
  | > Log Message:
  | > Preliminary version of resize_ffs, based on der Mouse's fsresize tool.
  | 
  | As the name suggests, will this be able to shrink filesystems too?  If
  | not, it may be worth following other OSen in naming it "growfs" (and
  | adding relevant _<fs> versions, defaulting to ffs).

The tool can shrink ffs file systems as well.  That's why we made the
decision to call it "resize_ffs" not "grow_ffs".

Luke.