Re: [coLinux-devel] cygwin resize2fs

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

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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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