Call me stupid (I won't complain!), but I've ran out of space in my main FFS partition. The whole rest of the disk is unformatted, so there's plenty of space.
Is there any way to grow an FFS partition? If there isn't, I'd backup and repartition. I've thought about backing up to a mass storage device, but FFS formatted too, in order to keep every file exactly as in the original. Anyone has had experience with this?

AFAIK currently there's no way.

In your situation even if I hadn't ran out of space, I'd reformat anyway, just to get rid of FFS.

Of course some firmware versions need to have boot.img on FFS partition.

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That's my case. I thought of doing a backup elsewhere and then, try something funny: Write down every detail about the partition, delete it, and then create it again with exactly the same information, but with a larger number in "HighCyl". What would happen?

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Probably you would get a nice unformatted partition, just waiting to be formatted.

In any case, I'd advice you to have at least 2 big-ish partitions, that way you got a place where to back up the other in case you get into problems.

He would get an unformatted volume, yes. And then he could get all the old contents back with a fix-in-place disk recovery tool; Quartback Tools, Amiback Tools and DiskSalv (I don't remember if this one supported "in place" fixing) to name a few.

A quickformat (with the same filesystem attributes, obvously) might be necesarry between the repartitioning and the recovery process.

[ Edited by mikeri on 2007/3/13 17:15 ]

It's worth to migrate to SFS for many reasons. And one of them is March's sfsresize. ;)
http://home.elka.pw.edu.pl/~mszyprow/programy/sfsresize/

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I've been using FFS since the first public betas, many years ago. I was very happy with it, as I never had problems with the Voyager cache partition, specially formatted in SFS for hard usage.
But I prefer to have FFS for my system partition, because it's the filesystem that my version of SmartFirmware can read (yes, I have "boot.img" in the normal SYS partition).
I'm thinking about creating a new, bigger SFS partition, and copy everything except "boot.img". Then, I would need to set this as bootable (easy, of course), and set the old one as non bootable, which I don't know how to do.
The partition tool in MorphOS does not allow to edit partitions, only create. Is there any other tool available? Otherwise, wasn't there a method of telling (to SmartFirmware's "boot" command) the partition I want to boot from, instead of having it search for a bootable one?

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Yes, I've read about succesfull attempts, but it currently only supports shrinking partitions.

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SCSI config allows you to edit and change attributes of your existing partitions.

BTW when you make SCSI config recognize your HD don't choose optimal geometry as this could lead to problems in the future if you want to plug in your HD to other computers.

If you don't like SCSIConfig you can use the old hdtoolbox.