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=head1 NAME
-rrdtool resize - alters the size of an RRA.
-
-=for html <div align="right"><a href="rrdresize.pdf">PDF</a> version.</div>
+rrdresize - alters the size of an RRA and creates a new .rrd file
=head1 SYNOPSIS
=head1 NOTES
+The new .rrd file, with the modified RRAs, is written to the file
+B<resize.rrd> in the current directory. B<The original .rrd file is not
+modified>.
+
It is possible to abuse this tool and get strange results
-by first removing some rows and then reinsert the same amount (effectively
+by first removing some rows and then reinserting the same amount (effectively
clearing them to be Unknown). You may thus end up with unknown data in one
RRA while at the same timestamp this data is available in another RRA.