On 06/06/2018 04:46 AM, Zoran Stojsavljevic wrote: > Before asking this question to YOCTO community, the simplier question > will be to ask if anybody knows any Linux distro (RHEL, Fedora, > Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE etc.), with the feature which can do this? > > I am dealing with Linux for years, but such a mechanism did not > see/experience. As well, never found anybody who asked this question > as a such even for the normal distros. > > In contrary, it is impossible to expand/shrink dynamically active > (mounted) partitions, AFAIK.
man resize2fs :) A carefully crafted script that uns on first boot should expand a partition to fill all available space. Philip > > For this to happen, somebody needs to invent the new dynamically > expanding active fs (the feature of it), which can do that. > > Zoran > _______ > > On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:59 PM, Mihaela Apetroaie-Cristea > <apetroaiecristeamiha...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thanks for your answer. However, my question is whether there is a mechanism >> such that the root will keep it’s minimal size, but be able to expand if >> there is free space on the disk when new files are added (not necessarily to >> occupy the whole free space), and shrink back if files are deleted. At the >> moment I am happy to flash it with the minimal size, but it runs out of >> space when I want to add something to the partitions, although there is >> extra space on the disk that it could take. I know the implementation of >> this is complicated, but I am wondering if anyone knows a solution for this. >> >> Thank you >> >> >> On 5 Jun 2018, at 15:50, Iván Castell <icast...@nayarsystems.com> wrote: >> >> I managed this issue redefining this script in my custom layer (rocko >> branch): >> >> scripts/lib/wic/canned-wks/mkefidisk.wks >> >> and setting a bigger size for the root partition (80GB in my case): >> >> part / --source rootfs --ondisk sda --fstype=ext4 --label platform >> --align 1024 --use-uuid --size 80000 >> >> Its not very nice, I know. But yocto can't know the real size of your root >> device until writing the final image. >> >> I don't know if this is the best way to fix this but it works. >> -- Ivan >> >> >> >> >> -- >> _______________________________________________ >> yocto mailing list >> yocto@yoctoproject.org >> https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto >> -- _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto
