[yocto] resize_inode
Paul Eggleton
paul.eggleton at linux.intel.com
Tue May 7 03:03:05 PDT 2013
On Saturday 04 May 2013 15:36:41 seth bollinger wrote:
> I'm trying to create a small SD card image that I can quickly dd to card
> and then do an online resize as a post process step to take advantage of
> the entire space of the card. Similar to how the raspbian image works.
> Unfortunately genext2fs doesn't seem to set this flag (and reserve the
> required resources), so the online resize fails. I tried using tune2fs,
> as it looked like there was some interest in adding support, but it
> looks like it never happened. Has anyone else run into this issue? Is
> there a solution?
>
> resize2fs 1.42.1 (17-Feb-2012)
> Filesystem at /dev/mmcblk0p2 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
> old_desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 15
> resize2fs: Filesystem does not support online resizing
>
> | Setting filesystem feature 'resize_inode' not supported.
> | tune2fs 1.42.1 (17-Feb-2012)
genext2fs is a bit limited, this is just one example of how.
Could you not just do an offline resize of the filesystem though? Why does it
need to be mounted?
Cheers,
Paul
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Paul Eggleton
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