On 03/16/2014 09:42 AM, David Marceau wrote: > On 03/16/2014 08:09 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: >> hi, Am Sonntag, den 16.03.2014, 07:58 -0400 schrieb David Marceau: >>> This weekend I tried to install ubuntu-sdk directly on my Nexus 4 >>> in order to directly build go-qml apps. I ran out of space on >>> the device. >> >> this is by design ... we offer 500MB for installing additional >> packages currently for people needing to work on the system >> plumbing itself. Resizing the loop device would be really complex >> (not to mention that using apt isn't really encouraged and that >> things like dist-upgrade are not supported at all which means you >> would have to re-flash and re-install all the time when wanting to >> upgrade anything) >> >> I was wondering if it would make sense to offer a tool to resize >> the loop image for developers (and cover the complexity for them), >> but that won't change a thing regarding the fact that dpkg will >> break on apt-get upgrade/dist-upgrade since it wont be able to use >> the hard links it requires across partition boundaries. >> >> If you want to build apps for the target arch, setting up a cross >> build environment is the way to go here ... > > Why should I cross build when I can build directly on the target? > I installed everything and actually built on the target. > I was just missing a bit more space. > > I am of the opinion it is best to build and debug on the platform > rather than cross-compile especially when this platform is fast enough > to handle it and has the adequate resources. It's just that the > resources are not currently distributed with hosted development in mind. > > I would prefer to have a tool to resize the loop image within the > phablet flash switches --loop-size=4GB, but defaults to 2GB for > production. > For example: > ubuntu-device-flash --revision=237 --channel=devel-proposed > --bootstrap --loop-size=4GB > Would that be possible?
I'm trying to manually resize /dev/loop0 myself as mentioned in: http://askubuntu.com/questions/260620/resize-dev-loop0-and-increase-space > sudo losetup /dev/loop0 losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/loop0: [b317]:24433 (/tmpmnt/system.img) > to see what file the loopback device is attached to > sudo dd if=/dev/zero bs=1MiB of=/path/to/file conv=notrunc oflag=append > count=2GiB >!!!count is what I want to ADD to the file. 2GB(already exists so we need another 2GB). QUESTION: What's the best block size for ubuntu phone bs=1MiB, but that seems a bit high. I tried: /sbin/dumpe2fs / | grep 'Block size' But I got an error. dumpe2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014) /sbin/dumpe2fs: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open / > sudo losetup -c /dev/loop0 > sudo resize2fs /dev/loop0 -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
