On 15.10.14, 17:22, Richard Melville wrote: > > I have one quite large ext4 partition, which has my 32-bit LFS. > There is also a much smaller ext4 partition, which is big enough > to hold a working LFS, but may not be big enough to compile one > (about 60% full with a bare-bones LFS in it). This smaller > partition currently has my non-functioning attempt at a 64-bit build. > > > Why can't you either, shrink the large ext4 partition and then create > one or more partitions from the extra space, or convert one or both > ext4 partitions to btrfs which will give you the flexibility you > require vis-a-vis storage capacity. Of course, to do the latter would > require btrfs enabled in the kernel (preferably the latest version) > and the installation of btrfs-progs (again, preferably the latest > version). Then to covert just run "btrfs-convert /dev/sdax". > > Richard > > I turned off swapping (plenty of memory here), and reformatted the swap partition as ext4. It's big enough for a minimal LFS, so that gave me three working partitions to put my working 32-bit LFS, my working partial 64-bit CLFS, and my non-working 64-bit LFS on :)
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