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On Friday 31 Jul 2015 19:19:06 Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> on my tablet PC I used an Android App called "Linux deploy" |
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> to install an chroot-environment for - guess - Gentoo. :) |
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> The tablet has a SDcard slot and recognizes any FAT32 formatted |
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> SDcard automatically. Anything else will silently be ignored. |
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> Furthermore Linux deploy uses a single file when it is |
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> pointed to an external SDcard (with FAT32) which is mounted |
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> via a loop device, formatted ext4, and then populated with |
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> the Gentoo Linux files. |
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> So far so nice. |
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> Unfortunately the file size is limited to 4GB, which is not |
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> /that/ much in respect to what I want to install later (Linux |
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> deploy goes as far as LXDE runs a terminal and only a few moe things). |
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> I created a second file of 4GB and set it up as a "second partition". |
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> This is now additional storage capacity of another 4GB. |
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> BUT: |
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> Linux deploy already installed a full rootfs and more on the first |
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> file. And I need to increase the size of _the whole rootfs_ with this |
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> extra file ... not only the storage capacity located behind a certain |
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> mountpoint. |
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> Is there any way to add the capacity of the second file in a way, that |
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> the whole rootfs participates from/in/at/of (damn! sorry, I am not |
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> good with/at/in/of/from propositions) this? |
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> How can I deal with this? |
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> Thank you very much in advance for any help! |
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> Best regards, |
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> Meino |
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Have you tried mounting it with '-o loop' from your chrooted system? However, |
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this won't work unless the chrooted system can see the new partition. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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