Re: [coLinux-users] mkfile utility

[Mark W. <mar...@ma...>]

On 14 Oct 04, at 12:29, Henry Nestler wrote:

> Mark Whidby wrote:
> > I've doubled the size of my root filesystem from 2GB to 4GB using
> > Dan Slater's mkfile utility but what do I need to do in colinux to make
> > the filesystem appear as 4GB?
> > 
> > Forgive my cluelessness...
> 
> Sorry "mkfile" is unknown for me.
> Have you an filesystem on this image? (ext3)
> 
> Have you create only an empty image of 4GB and need help for copy files 
> from old image (2GB) into new image (4GB)?
> 
> Creat a new entry in colinux.config.xml for new image, such as:
> 
>   <block_device index="7" path="\DosDevices\C:\CoLinux\image-4gb.img"
>   enabled="true" />
> 
> Boot colinux from old image.
> Mount your new image and copy all files, but not other mount-points and 
> not the proc:
> 
>   # mkdir /tmp/4gb
>   # mount /dev/cobd7 /tmp/4gb
>   # cd /
>   # cp -ax * /tmp/4gb
>   # umount /tmp/4gb
>   # rmdir /tmp/4gb
> 
> Stop running colinux and reboot from new image.

Thanks for the suggestion. Mkfile is available from the wiki website
and it enlarges filesystem images in situ but doesn't do a resizefs
on the actual filesystem. Instead I got hold of topoenlarge (which is
also mentioned on wiki but the link is broken) which does an enlarge
and a resize in situ.


-- 
Mark Whidby
Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences