Re: Where is fsresize?

[Andrew Clausen]

Hi Barry,

On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:53:23AM -0800, Barry Kauler wrote:
> I am the developer of a tiny distro called Puppy Linux.
> I want to be able to grow fat filesystems, and the old
> program "fsresize" that was developed prior to gnu parted
> seems to be the right tool.

Parted can do everything fsresize could do, and more!  (fsresize
couldn't shrink the cluster size)  fsresize is no longer maintained, so
I don't recommend you use it.

> Problem is, I can't find anywhere to download it from.
> Does anyone know a url where I can obtain it?

I have a copy... I wonder where I can make a public repository of
all parted versions available?  Any suggestions?

> Note, my distro has very little space, fits into a 50M
> credit-card-size CD, so I just use apps that do the job, no more.

I see.  Parted is reasonably configurable wrt what you include/exclude.
The motivation for merging partitioning and file system tools was
the fact that you almost always want to do the two together.  Not
to mention cache-coherency and constraint issues.  Wouldn't you want
Parted on your credit-card-size-CD?

Cheers,
Andrew