From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
To: Robert Homann <homann@bury.com>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Resizing of an existing UBIFS
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 09:53:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1337669583.2483.88.camel@sauron.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBB3506.3020904@bury.com>
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On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 08:41 +0200, Robert Homann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a short question: Is it possible to expand the size of a UBIFS
> without creating a new image file or reformatting from scratch?
>
> Suppose you have a UBIFS whose --max-leb-cnt has been set so to limit
> its size to 100 MiB. Now suppose this UBIFS lives in a dynamic UBI
> volume which gets expanded to a size of the whole partition, say,
> 150 MiB. Being limited by the --max-leb-cnt parameter, the contained
> UBIFS is expanded to only 100 MiB, and the rest of the space in the
> volume is wasted. Is it possible to resize the UBIFS so that it can make
> use of the now wasted space?
Unfortunately there are not tools for this :-( You could write one,
though :-)
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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-22 6:41 Resizing of an existing UBIFS Robert Homann
2012-05-22 6:53 ` Artem Bityutskiy [this message]
2012-05-22 7:21 ` Robert Homann
2012-05-22 8:10 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-22 9:25 ` Robert Homann
2012-05-22 9:40 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-05-22 10:19 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-22 11:11 ` Robert Homann
2012-05-22 11:24 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-25 7:00 ` Adrian Hunter
2012-05-25 7:49 ` Robert Homann
2012-05-25 8:00 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-05-28 9:09 ` Adrian Hunter
2012-06-01 10:10 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-06-01 11:48 ` Adrian Hunter
2012-06-01 19:47 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-06-04 7:58 ` Adrian Hunter
2012-06-04 9:35 ` Ricard Wanderlof
2012-06-04 9:47 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-25 10:12 ` Norbert van Bolhuis
2012-05-26 14:00 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2012-05-27 20:24 ` Norbert van Bolhuis
2012-05-28 5:46 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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