04-05-2008
As per the caveats in the resize manual page, it seems you are pretty much out of luck.
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
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
-i --info
Show volume information
-p --progress
Show progress
-q --quite
Be quite
-v --verbose
Verbose (not version)
EXAMPLES
fatresize -s 2G /dev/evms/hdb2
fatresize -q -s 3G /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 2 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.
FATRESIZE(1)