On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 03:22:56PM +0200, Ottavio Caruso wrote:
> On 4 April 2014 14:18, Greg Troxel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Ottavio Caruso <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> >> Unless somebody can suggest a realtively way to resize a ffs/ffs2 
> >> partition.
> >
> > man resize_ffs :-)
> 
> 
> A couple of problems with that:
> 
> 1) BUGS
>      Doesn't currently support shrinking FFSv2 file systems
> 
> Is it still so?
> 
> 2)
> 
> DESCRIPTION
>      resize_ffs resizes a file system.
> 
> My understanding is that resize_ffs resize a partition within the bsd
> slice, not the whole MBR partition. I thought that "fdisk -u" would
> have done the job.

It resizes a filesystem, not a partition. That's different things.
To change the partition's size you use disklabel and/or fdisk

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