[PATCH] olpc.fth - grow the root filesystem partition on boot

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Wed Mar 14 20:06:04 EDT 2012


On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 5:48 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:
> I would prefer to solve this by having Linux expand the partition, but
> I'm told that can't work because Linux doesn't see the new size until
> next boot.  Do you know a way to avoid a reboot?

Yes, we can do it from the initramfs.
But having OFW take care of it does sound appealing (I like the
fs-update-no-resize idea).

Daniel



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