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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