[TriLUG] parted?

[Jeremy Katz]

On Sunday, December 23 2001, Matt Matthews said:
> On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 06:13:13PM -0500, Chris Merrill wrote:
> > So is this a good, reliable tool for this purpose?  Should I consider
> > any other alternatives?  Any gotchas I should aviod?
> 
> One thing I've always wondered:
> Does parted resize FAT32 (or FAT16) partitions non-destructively? Or do you
> still have to defrag them first?

I seem to remember that it actually moves blocks on the fly... so if you
defragment first, it will probably go faster but should work fine even
if you don't.

Cheers,

Jeremy

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