Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> [15-08-01 04:28]: > On Friday 31 Jul 2015 19:19:06 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > Hi, > > > > on my tablet PC I used an Android App called "Linux deploy" > > to install an chroot-environment for - guess - Gentoo. :) > > > > The tablet has a SDcard slot and recognizes any FAT32 formatted > > SDcard automatically. Anything else will silently be ignored. > > > > Furthermore Linux deploy uses a single file when it is > > pointed to an external SDcard (with FAT32) which is mounted > > via a loop device, formatted ext4, and then populated with > > the Gentoo Linux files. > > > > So far so nice. > > > > Unfortunately the file size is limited to 4GB, which is not > > /that/ much in respect to what I want to install later (Linux > > deploy goes as far as LXDE runs a terminal and only a few moe things). > > > > I created a second file of 4GB and set it up as a "second partition". > > This is now additional storage capacity of another 4GB. > > > > BUT: > > Linux deploy already installed a full rootfs and more on the first > > file. And I need to increase the size of _the whole rootfs_ with this > > extra file ... not only the storage capacity located behind a certain > > mountpoint. > > > > Is there any way to add the capacity of the second file in a way, that > > the whole rootfs participates from/in/at/of (damn! sorry, I am not > > good with/at/in/of/from propositions) this? > > > > How can I deal with this? > > > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > > Best regards, > > Meino > > Have you tried mounting it with '-o loop' from your chrooted system? > However, > this won't work unless the chrooted system can see the new partition. > > -- > Regards, > Mick
Hi Mick, yes...my question is a result from that. What I did is (the structure is an example): This is the root of the current image file, which contains the chroot environment and is mounted via loop by the android OS: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2015-07-25 04:04 bin drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 2015-07-25 07:42 boot drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2015-08-01 04:26 config drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 15640 2015-08-01 04:26 dev drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2015-01-11 16:42 doc drwxr-xr-x 150 root root 12288 2015-07-31 04:01 etc drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2014-01-13 05:21 home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2015-03-24 03:10 lib drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2014-10-08 17:04 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2014-05-12 03:56 media drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-11-05 21:07 mnt drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2015-07-24 19:34 opt dr-xr-xr-x 179 root root 0 2015-08-01 04:26 proc drwx------ 96 root root 12288 2015-08-01 04:56 root drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 860 2015-08-01 04:28 run drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2015-07-28 21:07 sbin dr-xr-xr-x 12 root root 0 2015-08-01 04:26 sys drwxrwxrwt 39 root root 4096 2015-08-01 04:58 tmp drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2014-09-07 19:09 usr drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2015-01-08 08:27 var This fs is nearly filled up...not much more space available. So I created a second image file, which currently contains nothing more than 4GB of free space (YEAH!:) If I mount this (via loop) to for example to /mnt/ I will get: drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2015-07-25 04:04 bin drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 2015-07-25 07:42 boot drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2015-08-01 04:26 config drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 15640 2015-08-01 04:26 dev drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2015-01-11 16:42 doc drwxr-xr-x 150 root root 12288 2015-07-31 04:01 etc drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2014-01-13 05:21 home lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 2015-03-24 03:10 lib drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2014-10-08 17:04 lost+found drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2014-05-12 03:56 media drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2010-11-05 21:07 mnt (behind this there is 4GB of additional space) drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2015-07-24 19:34 opt dr-xr-xr-x 179 root root 0 2015-08-01 04:26 proc drwx------ 96 root root 12288 2015-08-01 04:56 root drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 860 2015-08-01 04:28 run drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2015-07-28 21:07 sbin dr-xr-xr-x 12 root root 0 2015-08-01 04:26 sys drwxrwxrwt 39 root root 4096 2015-08-01 04:58 tmp drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2014-09-07 19:09 usr drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2015-01-08 08:27 var BUT: The space of the filesystem to which for example updates and new programs will be installed is not increased by a single byte. I need a soultion which add the 4GB space in a way that the current nearly filled filesystem will get more space as a whole. How can I do that? Best regards, Meino
