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[coLinux-devel] cygwin resize2fs

[<ch...@to...>]

On the expanding root wiki page I saw mention of running resize2fs under
cygwin. I just did a carefull install of cygwin looking for any packages
that may contain this but could not find it.

I tried downloading the sources under cygwin 6 months ago and was not able
to get it to work.

Where can I obtain this. I wrote a program with tcl/tk that is a starpack
that can increase the size of the file but It requires a script to run in
linux to resize the file system. If I could find this I will try to adapt
my program to do the whole process in windows with a nice gui.

anyone know where I can get this. Or instructions for getting it to
compile and work in windows.

chris

Re: [coLinux-devel] cygwin resize2fs

[Sean B. <sea...@so...>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <ch...@to...>
To: <col...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:54 PM
Subject: [coLinux-devel] cygwin resize2fs


| On the expanding root wiki page I saw mention of running resize2fs under
| cygwin. I just did a carefull install of cygwin looking for any packages
| that may contain this but could not find it.
You wont find e2fsprogs in cygwin. Cygwin does not need to know about
file systems (until now of course with coLinux).

|
| I tried downloading the sources under cygwin 6 months ago and was not able
| to get it to work.
|
| Where can I obtain this. I wrote a program with tcl/tk that is a starpack
| that can increase the size of the file but It requires a script to run in
| linux to resize the file system. If I could find this I will try to adapt
| my program to do the whole process in windows with a nice gui.

resize2fs started out as ext2resize before it was merged in a few years
ago. The last released version of ext2resize was 0.7. This version had
problems with large filesystems and did not support ext3 (though you could
get around that by removing the journal and adding it back after the
resize).
However, if you go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ you can
checkout what would have been 0.8 from cvs.
For reference read this: The Loopback Root Filesystem HOWTO
The versions of this document from tldp and elsewhere lack the section
that I think is relevant: 5.7 Resizing a loop linux system
Here is a link to this version:
http://217.109.169.18/download/looplinux/loop-root-fs.txt

A gui in Windows that would do this sounds fantastic :)

|
| anyone know where I can get this. Or instructions for getting it to
| compile and work in windows.
|
| chris
|
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Re: [coLinux-devel] cygwin resize2fs

[Sean B. <sea...@so...>]

I think I made a mistake calling the last version 0.8. I may
have been thinking about a completely different package.
The point is the same though. The last version was never
released and is in cvs. The official one is resize2fs and I 
guess you know where to get the sources for that.

Re: [coLinux-devel] cygwin resize2fs

[<ch...@to...>]

While waiting on your reply I downloaded the source to e2fsprogs-1.35
which contains resize2fs I was not able to make the whole thing but was
able to make resize2fs.exe and tried it on an image file that I enlarged
with my gui tool I had to use -f but hopefully I will be able to build
e2fsck to run before and after. So far so good. I will then attempt to
wrap all this in the gui that enlarges the file itself.

I am familiar with the Loopback Root Filesystem HOWTO but maby I'll give
it another look. I have been working with root on loop with topologilinux
for some time now.

I'll keep working with this version because it is the actively developed
one. I heard somewhere that It was first developed for partition magic or
something else commercial like that I don't know what os runs under that.

Thanks for the history lesson. I always wondered if they were related. I
think that I tried both at the time I was attempting this before. But I
must have had a version that was not compatable with cygwin

chris

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ch...@to...>
> To: <col...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2004 6:54 PM
> Subject: [coLinux-devel] cygwin resize2fs
>
>
> | On the expanding root wiki page I saw mention of running resize2fs under
> | cygwin. I just did a carefull install of cygwin looking for any packages
> | that may contain this but could not find it.
> You wont find e2fsprogs in cygwin. Cygwin does not need to know about
> file systems (until now of course with coLinux).
>
> |
> | I tried downloading the sources under cygwin 6 months ago and was not
> able
> | to get it to work.
> |
> | Where can I obtain this. I wrote a program with tcl/tk that is a
> starpack
> | that can increase the size of the file but It requires a script to run
> in
> | linux to resize the file system. If I could find this I will try to
> adapt
> | my program to do the whole process in windows with a nice gui.
>
> resize2fs started out as ext2resize before it was merged in a few years
> ago. The last released version of ext2resize was 0.7. This version had
> problems with large filesystems and did not support ext3 (though you could
> get around that by removing the journal and adding it back after the
> resize).
> However, if you go to http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2resize/ you can
> checkout what would have been 0.8 from cvs.
> For reference read this: The Loopback Root Filesystem HOWTO
> The versions of this document from tldp and elsewhere lack the section
> that I think is relevant: 5.7 Resizing a loop linux system
> Here is a link to this version:
> http://217.109.169.18/download/looplinux/loop-root-fs.txt
>
> A gui in Windows that would do this sounds fantastic :)
>
> |
> | anyone know where I can get this. Or instructions for getting it to
> | compile and work in windows.
> |
> | chris
> |
> |
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