FATRESIZE(1)

✨ FATRESIZE(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the fatresize manual page, living in the General Commands Manual section of the man universe 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

fatresize — resize an FAT16/FAT32 volume, and do it non-destructively 🦋 (yes queen, your data stays put)

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

fatresize [-s SIZE]  [device]

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So this manual page is a lil' quick-and-casual rundown of fatresize. Short and sweet, that's the vibe. ✨

And the tea? ☕ This page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Not one. Nothing. So Debian said "fine, we'll do it ourselves" and here we are 💅

👑 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 a summary of options. Your little "what do I even do here" safety net 🫶
• -s, --size — resize the volume to SIZE[k|M|G|ki|Mi|Gi] bytes, or literally the word "max" if you want it to just go off and take up all the space it can 🔥
• -i, --info — show volume information. Receipts, basically 🧾
• -p, --progress — show progress. For when you need the little bar to keep you emotionally stable 😭
• -q, --quiet — be quiet 🤫
• -v, --verbose — verbose. And no, bestie, that is not version, it's verbose 💀 iykyk

🌈 EXAMPLES 🌈

fatresize -s 2G /dev/evms/hdb2

fatresize -q -s max /dev/hde6

fatresize -i /dev/hdg3

Size and device is required to run. That's the whole deal, no size no device no resize, periodt 💅

Also!! You can resize device-mapped partitions, e.g. EVMS partitions. Slay 🎀

💀 BUGS 💀

You can't resize a FAT32 partition lesser than 512Mb because Windows(R) doesn't work properly with small FAT32 file system. That's not us being dramatic, that's just how it is 😭 Use FAT16 instead. Problem solved, moving on 🦋

🫶 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 3 any later version published by the Free Software Foundation. Legal queen behavior, we love to see it 👑

On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.

and that's the whole page bestie 🫶 this was FATRESIZE(1) from the General Commands Manual — no date stamped on it, it's timeless like that ✨ go forth and resize responsibly, mwah 💖