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.