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

[Robert C. <rw...@al...>]

On Thursday, Jun 3, 2004, at 15:15 US/Central, tei wrote:
> 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!..

Sounds like we may be talking about the same thing.  The only 
difference is that I'm using Debian.  Here are the steps I took:

from within Windows ...
     * download or create a file with a bunch of zeros. I used one of 
the swap files and uncompressed it with 7-zip:
           o http://gniarf.nerim.net/colinux/swap/swap_64Mb.bz2
     * created a new root fs that has the zeros appended
           o copy /B root_fs + swap_64Mb root_fs.new
     * modified defaults.colinux.xml to have a device point to the new 
image
           o <block_device index="2" 
path="\DosDevices\c:\coLinux\root_fs.new" enabled="true" />
     * started colinux
from within colinux ...
     * checked current file system size
           o df
     * fsck'd the new filesystem
           o e2fsck -f /dev/cobd2
     * expanded the new filesystem
           o resize2fs -f /dev/cobd2
     * fsck'd the new filesystem
           o e2fsck -f /dev/cobd2
     * mounted new filesystem
           o mkdir /mnt/root_fs.new && mount /dev/cobd2 /mnt/root_fs.new
     * verified new size
           o df
     * exited colinux
from within windows ...
     * renamed root_fs to root_fs.bak
     * renamed root_fs.new to root_fs
     * modified defaults.colinux.xml to comment-out block_device #2
     * started colinux
from within colinux ...
     * verified expanded filesystem
           o df

For a wiki version, see "Expanding the root filesystem" towards the 
bottom of the page:

   http://cwelug.org/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi?CoLinux

It seems to have worked for me, but YMMV.

Regards,
- Robert