fatresize - Man Page

fatresize [-s SIZE]  [device]  

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.

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 or "max"

-i           --info        

Show volume information

-p           --progress        

Show progress

-q           --quiet        

Be quiet

-v           --verbose        

Verbose (not version)

fatresize -s 2G /dev/evms/hdb2

fatresize -q -s max /dev/hde6

fatresize -i /dev/hdg3

Size and device is required to run.  You can resize device-mapped partitions, e.g. EVMS partitions.

You can't resize FAT32 partition lesser than 512Mb because Windows(R) doesn't  work properly with small FAT32 file system. Use FAT16.

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 3 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-3.