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Jan Schaumann

System Administration

Week 3, Resizing file systems

Closing out our week of discussing the Dark Arts[1] of file systems, we show how to resize an existing file system on using the resize_ffs(8) tool. We first increase the size of a 512MB partition to 1GB, then shrink it down to 256MB:

youtu.be/9l-g3keN48g

For comparison, we then repeat the same exercise on , using resize2fs(8):

youtu.be/4V15y5Klo9Y

[1] xkcd.com/2531/

xkcd 2531: Cueball tells whitehat: "Long ago, in another age, I mastered these dark arts. But now I endeavor to live my ilfe such that I never need them. Their power leads only to ruin." Underneath: "My response whenever anyone asks me to mess around with file systems."
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Feb 09, 2025, 05:12 PM·Public·Web
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