debian man page for 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.

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