NAME¶
fatresize — Resize an FAT16/FAT32 volume non-destructively
SYNOPSIS¶
fatresize [
-s SIZE] [device]
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
fatresize
This manual page was written for the
Debian distribution because the
original program does not have a manual page.
OPTIONS¶
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options
starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a
complete description, see the
Info files.
- -h --help
- Show summary of options.
- -s --size
- Resize volume to SIZE[k|M|G|ki|Mi|Gi] bytes
- -i --info
- Show volume information
- -p --progress
- Show progress
- -q --quite
- Be quite
- -v --verbose
- Verbose (not version)
EXAMPLES¶
fatresize -s 2G /dev/evms/hdb2
fatresize -q -s 3G /dev/hde6
fatresize -i /dev/hdg3
Size and device is required to run. You can resize device-mapped partitions,
e.g. EVMS partitions.
BUGS¶
You can't resize FAT32 partition lesser than 512Mb because Windows(R) doesn't
work properly with small FAT32 file system. Use FAT16.
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Philippe Coval rzr@gna.org for the
Debian
system (but may be used by others). Permission is granted to copy, distribute
and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU General Public License,
Version 2 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be
found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.