 Resize Root Partition And Keep File System Intact, **resulted in a serious error** |
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 Jan 28 2007, 09:11 AM
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The procedure resulted in a serious error. This post has been edited by dougeeebear: Jan 29 2007, 05:44 AM |
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Jan 28 2007, 02:38 PM
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I think this must work down to pure luck, that the parts of the file system you chopped off weren't used!
I'm not too sure that if you added to the file sys then it wouldn't corrupt the rest of the card or crash as it might try and write outside of the partition. I think you'd be much better off copying the files to a flash card or to another machine. you can copy the entire file system to a remote machine using rsync or tar + ssh... e.g. cd /xyz tar cf - . | gzip | ssh xyz.example.com "mkdir /tmp/xyz ; cd /tmp/xyz ; tar xf -" or backup thus cd /xyz tar cf - . | gzip | ssh xyz.example.com "cat > /tmp/xyz.tar.gz" |
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Jan 28 2007, 02:54 PM
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QUOTE(speculatrix @ Jan 28 2007, 04:38 PM) I think this must work down to pure luck, that the parts of the file system you chopped off weren't used! I didn't chop anything off. I think you're misunderstanding what I did here. I just reduced the size of / and increased the size of /home. It worked similar to the way Partition Magic works on Windows. But maybe you're right... maybe I was lucky. |
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Jan 28 2007, 03:54 PM
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I made a NAND BACKUP of the new partitioning scheme, then I did a NAND RESTORE of the original.
It came back as it was originally. Then I tried to do a NAND RESTORE of the new partitioning scheme, and I got the following error: Restore Error... Bad Format So I guess the resizing process must have messed something up. Oh, well *nuts* Back to the original. speculatrix, Looks like you were right. |
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Jan 28 2007, 08:12 PM
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It was probably a good learning experience though hey?
Hope you keep at it. |
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Jan 28 2007, 09:30 PM
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yeah ... keep at it!
hey, looks like we got a couple/few of us who own the c1000! We could have a Akita club if it don't already exist! 
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Jan 29 2007, 03:01 AM
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QUOTE(dougeeebear @ Jan 28 2007, 11:54 PM) QUOTE(speculatrix @ Jan 28 2007, 04:38 PM) I think this must work down to pure luck, that the parts of the file system you chopped off weren't used! I didn't chop anything off.I think you're misunderstanding what I did here. I just reduced the size of / and increased the size of /home. It worked similar to the way Partition Magic works on Windows. But maybe you're right... maybe I was lucky. I don't think the resize partition is intelligent, I think it just changes the numbers in the partition table, and doesn't move any data in the "chopped-off" areas. I remember when PM first came out, and it was an amazing idea, that such a thing was possible at all. Seeing your follow-up confirmed my suspicions. sorry, it would have been neat if it had worked. |
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