[GTALUG] Resizing FAT32 filesystem?

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Mon Dec 19 11:04:16 EST 2016


On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 12:18:22PM -0500, William Park via talk wrote:
> Parted has 'resizepart' which resizes a partition (at least the end
> point).  That's just for the partition, not for the filesystem inside.
> 
> OK, just discovered 'fatresize' on Clonezilla, and probably available on
> other distros too.  Also, discovered GParted Live iso, which makes my
> original question moot.

Debian has a package named fatresize, which is based on libparted
apparently.

I never understood why parted 3 removed the resize command that parted
2 had.  It makes no sense to remove a useful feature like that.

-- 
Len Sorensen


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