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RESIZE2FS(8)							  RESIZE2FS(8)

NAME
       resize2fs - ext2/ext3/ext4 file system resizer

SYNOPSIS
       resize2fs  [  -fFpPM  ]	[ -d debug-flags ] [ -S RAID-stride ] device [
       size ]

DESCRIPTION
       The resize2fs program will resize ext2, ext3, or ext4 file systems.  It
       can  be	used  to enlarge or shrink an unmounted file system located on
       device.	If the filesystem is mounted, it can be	 used  to  expand  the
       size  of	 the  mounted filesystem, assuming the kernel supports on-line
       resizing.  (As of this writing, the Linux 2.6 kernel  supports  on-line
       resize for filesystems mounted using ext3 and ext4.).

       The  size parameter specifies the requested new size of the filesystem.
       If no units are specified, the units of the size parameter shall be the
       filesystem blocksize of the filesystem.	Optionally, the size parameter
       may be suffixed by one of the following	the  units  designators:  's',
       'K',  'M', or 'G', for 512 byte sectors, kilobytes, megabytes, or giga‐
       bytes, respectively.  The size of the filesystem may  never  be	larger
       than the size of the partition.	If size parameter is not specified, it
       will default to the size of the partition.

       Note: when kilobytes is used above, I mean real, power-of-2  kilobytes,
       (i.e.,  1024 bytes), which some politically correct folks insist should
       be  the	stupid-sounding	 ``kibibytes''.	  The  same  holds  true   for
       megabytes,  also sometimes known as ``mebibytes'', or gigabytes, as the
       amazingly silly ``gibibytes''.  Makes you want to gibber, doesn't it?

       The resize2fs program does not manipulate the size of  partitions.   If
       you wish to enlarge a filesystem, you must make sure you can expand the
       size of the  underlying	partition  first.   This  can  be  done	 using
       fdisk(8) by deleting the partition and recreating it with a larger size
       or using lvextend(8),  if  you're  using	 the  logical  volume  manager
       lvm(8).	 When  recreating  the partition, make sure you create it with
       the same starting disk cylinder as before!  Otherwise, the resize oper‐
       ation will certainly not work, and you may lose your entire filesystem.
       After running fdisk(8), run resize2fs to resize the ext2 filesystem  to
       use all of the space in the newly enlarged partition.

       If  you wish to shrink an ext2 partition, first use resize2fs to shrink
       the size of filesystem.	Then you may use fdisk(8) to shrink  the  size
       of  the partition.  When shrinking the size of the partition, make sure
       you do not make it smaller than the new size of the ext2 filesystem!

OPTIONS
       -d debug-flags
	      Turns on various resize2fs debugging features, if they have been
	      compiled	into  the  binary.   debug-flags should be computed by
	      adding the numbers of the desired features  from	the  following
	      list:
		   2	- Debug block relocations
		   4	- Debug inode relocations
		   8	- Debug moving the inode table
		   16	- Print timing information

       -f     Forces  resize2fs	 to  proceed with the filesystem resize opera‐
	      tion, overriding some safety  checks  which  resize2fs  normally
	      enforces.

       -F     Flush  the  filesystem  device's buffer caches before beginning.
	      Only really useful for doing resize2fs time trials.

       -M     Shrink the filesystem to the minimum size.

       -p     Prints out a percentage completion bars for each resize2fs oper‐
	      ation  during an offline resize, so that the user can keep track
	      of what the program is doing.

       -P     Print the minimum size of the filesystem and exit.

       -S RAID-stride
	      The resize2fs program  will  heuristically  determine  the  RAID
	      stride that was specified when the filesystem was created.  This
	      option allows the user to explicitly specify a RAID stride  set‐
	      ting to be used by resize2fs instead.

KNOWN BUGS
       The  minimum  size  of  the filesystem as estimated by resize2fs may be
       incorrect, especially for filesystems with 1k and 2k blocksizes.

AUTHOR
       resize2fs was written by Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>.

COPYRIGHT
       Resize2fs is Copyright 1998 by Theodore Ts'o and PowerQuest, Inc.   All
       rights  reserved.   As  of  April,  2000 Resize2fs may be redistributed
       under the terms of the GPL.

SEE ALSO
       fdisk(8), e2fsck(8), mke2fs(8), lvm(8), lvextend(8)

E2fsprogs version 1.42.8	   June 2013			  RESIZE2FS(8)
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