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Re: [uml-devel] Re: Resizing uml filesystems
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From: William S. <wst...@po...> - 2002-04-09 02:44:38
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Good evening, Ted, Many thanks, by the way, for all your work and time. On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:41:22PM -0500, William Stearns wrote: > > Good day, all, > > If you've started using uml filesystems and sworn at the bozo (*1) > > that decided that 100M of free space should be enough for anybody, you > > might want to resize those. Ted T'so has written an ext2 filesystem > > resizer, but it won't correctly resize a filesystem in a file in v1.26 of > > the e2fsprogs (*2). > > If you grab resize-fs-filesystem from > > http://www.stearns.org/mkrootfs/ , you can resize filesystem files > > correctly. It calls Ted's resizer, but handles the file size issue. > > Or you can just apply this patch to e2fsprogs (see below; this patch > will be fixed in the next release), which will fix the problem, and so > you can use resize2fs directly. Please consider this an endorsement for Ted's correct fix. > > *2 He has some changes in CVS that are supposed to fix that. > > Bitkeeper, actually.... Ah, yes. I had forgotten that you started working with bitkeeper. > > *3 If you try to resize a filesystem down to less than approximately 20M > > free space, resize2fs starts to complain about an out-of-space condition. > > It shouldn't. Send me a test case.... Shall do, off list. Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Tatu Ylonen was given public awards & wined & dined by the Finnish government for making ssh available to the world. Phil Zimmerman got a prison-term-commuted-to-community-service for doing the same with PGP. There is **NO** doubt that US govermnmet laws, PAST and PRESENT, HAVE hindered the development, commercialization and sales of cryptographic software." -- Duncan Napier <na...@na...> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wst...@po...). Mason, Buildkernel, named2hosts, and ipfwadm2ipchains are at: http://www.stearns.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------- |