T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > How can I create an image file system that can grow bigger as required? > > Vmware, qemu, kvm, etc all can create file systems in an image file which > is initially small, but grow bigger as required. I want to do that too, > but > > dd if=/dev/zero of=file-fs.ext2 bs=1k count=20k > mke2fs file-fs.ext2 > > would only create an image file initially as big as the full size. > > please help, thanks >
With this you cannot automagically grow the filesystem every time it runs out of space but hope this helps even a bit: 1. Backup and umount the container file 2. Add enough space to the container file (in this example 8 MiB) dd if=/dev/zero of=file-fs.ext2 bs=8M count=1 conv=notrunc oflag=append 3. Check the filesystem e2fsck -f file-fs.ext2 4. Resize filesystem resize2fs file-fs.ext2 5. Enjoy our extra megabytes. -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
