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PsycoX
05-20-2003, 11:52 PM
I need a bigger knoppix.img persistent home. How can I resize it?
PX.
garyng
05-21-2003, 02:44 AM
assume it is on /mnt/hda1,
1. dd of=/mnt/hda1/new_home if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=50
this create a new 50M file
2. mke2fs -j /mnt/hda1/new_home
this create a new ext3(or you can choose other fs) on new_home
3. mount /mnt/hda1/new_home /mnt/test -o loop
mount it to a mount point at /mnt/test
4. cp -dRp /home/* /mnt/test/*
copy everything over
5. mv /mnt/hda1/knoppix.img old_home; mv /mnt/hda1/new_home knoppix.img
replace it. when everything is cofirmed work, you can delete the old one.
PsycoX
05-21-2003, 12:07 PM
Ok, that's what I already tried! The problem comes with the actual copy command.. I first used "cp -a".. It didn't work. Not all files were copied.. I tried your "cp -dRp" and it didn't work either! There are some files that just won't get copied! I tried to boot Knoppix without persistent home, then mout knoppix.img in some dir, new_knoppix.img in another dir... but I can't copy (all) the files from one dir to another! And those are just normal files! That's strange...
Any ideas?!..
PX.
garyng
05-21-2003, 02:09 PM
well, try tar then. tar is supposed to be the right tools to do this kind of thing(in the past, backup everything to a tape).
or may be 'rsync'.
L2Cache
09-09-2003, 02:23 AM
I used KDE to resize my Knoppix 3.2 persistent home. Here's the process:
Copy your personal files from the knoppix home to a folder on a hard drive mounted read/write.
Reboot Knoppix without mounting your Knoppix home (no home=scan entry).
Unmount the hard drive you will use for the persistent home.
Go to kmenu, knopppix, configure, and make a persistent home of the new size you want.
Knoppix will make a new sized home over your old home. Be patient, it can take a while.
When the question about encryption comes up, it's done.
Reboot with mounting of the Knoppix home; and the new space should be there.
Go to kmenu, system, info center, storage devices to check the size and free space.
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