fatresize

FATRESIZE(1) General Commands Manual FATRESIZE(1)

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 or "max"

   -i           --info
             Show volume information

   -p           --progress
             Show progress

   -q           --quiet
             Be quiet

   -v           --verbose
             Verbose (not version)

EXAMPLES

   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.

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 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.

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