Re: [uml-user] How to resize sparse-files properly?

[roland <for...@gm...>]

what about creating a new, bigger sparse filesystem and transferring (dump,tar...)
the old filesystem contents ?
not the "perfect" method - but at least a possible one :)
regards
roland

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Preissler" <to...@gm...>
To: "UML-User Mailinglist" <use...@li...>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 6:12 PM
Subject: [uml-user] How to resize sparse-files properly?


> Hello folks,
> 
> I just have an interisting problem: I have a box, whose
> root-filesystem is nearly too small. So - ok, I resize it.
> 
> I created as as desribed as "sparse file" - 
> 
> host% dd if=/dev/zero of=new_filesystem seek=100 count=1 bs=1M
> 
> But - how do I resize a "sparse filesystem"? How do I append space
> to such a special file - it should be sparse after again, of course.
> 
> 
> How do you do this?
> 
> 
> TIA,
> Tom
> 
> 
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