Re: [coLinux-users] how to enlarge the image size of the Gentoo 1gb distro?

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Robert Citek wrote:

> 
> On Thursday, Jun 3, 2004, at 13:35 US/Central, cgmelt wrote:
> 
>> I ran out of space, how can I  add more space to the image 
>> gentoo-i686-ext3-1gb
> 
> 
> Funny you should ask.  That's exactly what I'm working on right now.  
> There's a page about it on the wiki:
> 
>   http://colinux.org/wiki/index.php/ExpandingRoot
> 
> Unfortunately, there's no easy way to do it from within coLinux.  IMHO, 
> the "best" strategy would be to modify your default.colinux.xml file to 
> point both the a super minimal linux and your "real" root_fs, boot to 
> the super-minimal linux, tack on a bunch of zero-filled bits to the end 
> of the "real" fs, and finally fsck and resize2fs your "real" fs.  For a 
> super-minimal linux I was thinking of tomsrtbt, but I don't know how to 
> setup colinux for tomsrtbt.
> 
> So, for now I've been using a copy of the original fs image.
> 
> Regards,
> - Robert

Imho

the better way is to copy & paste the original gentoo image to a new one, 
then mount that clone (editing xml is need to add the new image), if you 
can move to the new image all from /usr and mount the image at /, BINGO!..

Its better to read the wiki about that, of course, and If you are unsure, 
  make a backup of the image first.