[yocto] resize_inode

[Paul Eggleton]

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
Intel Open Source Technology Centre