> :anybody done any work on a utility for growing ufs filesystems?
> :
> :aaron
>
> It has been brought up a couple of times but nobody has tried
> to do actually it. Personally, I think it would be a doable
> project if someone wanted to have a go at it - to allow a filesystem
> to be grown or shrunk on a cylinder-by-cylinder basis. The only real
> complexity occurs when you are shrinking a filesystem - you have to locate
> the inodes & indirect blocks associated with allocated data blocks
> in the cylinder you are trying to remove in order to move the blocks.
the latter would be the task for a "packer" utility.
Myself, I have desired more often to be able to shring a FS than extend
one (i mean, barring black magic that would put on a disk more stuff
than its capacity).
cheers
luigi
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