[gentoo-user] Re: Resizing a FAT partition?

2015-07-31 Thread Martin Vaeth
meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: I took a look at parted and the resize command Use a parted-3.0. With parted-3.0 the maintainers considered removing the most important functionality of the prorgram a development. parted-2.4 (e.g.) has a resize command which is working (in the

[gentoo-user] Re: Resizing a FAT partition?

2015-07-30 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-30, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:32:05 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Firstly I want to shrink the first partition and secondly it is a plain FAT32 partition not ext-something. I did not find a resizefat32 or similiar. You need fatresize,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Resizing a FAT partition?

2015-07-30 Thread Francisco Ares
2015-07-30 16:26 GMT-03:00 Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com: On 2015-07-30, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:32:05 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Firstly I want to shrink the first partition and secondly it is a plain FAT32 partition not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Resizing a FAT partition?

2015-07-30 Thread Todd Goodman
* Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com [150730 15:53]: [..SNIP..} Flash memory devices are tricky when you try do defrag, as there is extra logic inside them to do the opposite: spread as much data as possible, as to equalize the number of write operations - the main limit for flash memory - for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Resizing a FAT partition?

2015-07-30 Thread Mick
On Thursday 30 Jul 2015 20:52:24 Francisco Ares wrote: 2015-07-30 16:26 GMT-03:00 Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com: On 2015-07-30, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:32:05 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Firstly I want to shrink the first partition and