Your call. Just curious, why do you need or want to increase your file system size ? The reason I ask is because for increasing the size for say /home is rather trivial. Just 3-4 simple steps such as . . .
1. partition and format the new media. 2. mount the new media in a temporary location. 3. copy the whole of /home to the new media - then unmount. 4. edit /etc/fstab to reflect the changes- Pointing to the new media. A quick google search would yield tons of accurate results. As in step by step how to's. On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:49 PM, earless <[email protected]> wrote: > ok thanks for your reply. I definitely wan to go with the easiest route so > i will boot from sd card instead. > > > On Sunday, November 23, 2014 3:33:47 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: >> >> You can pull your rootfs from anywhere you like so long as it is >> supported. SDcard, NFS share( network ) USB, and perhaps I am forgetting >> one or two options. >> >> http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/87580/partition- >> scheme-for-installation-of-debian >> >> Although, we're talking flash media here, so I would strongly suggest you >> go without a swap disk. >> >> Typically, it is easiest, and most common to mount the /home directory >> from additional media. In other cases, someone may mount /var/log on its >> own partition too. You can do this with just about any directory I think, >> but it become more complex as sometimes it not always possible to remount >> part of the file system on the system its self while it is running. >> >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 12:46 PM, earless <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Can i expand the rootfs to an sd card if im booting from the emmc or >>> can i only do this if im booting from the sd card? >>> >>> -- >>> For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "BeagleBoard" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "BeagleBoard" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
