Re: Resizing of an existing UBIFS

[Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>]

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On Sun, 2012-05-27 at 22:24 +0200, Norbert van Bolhuis wrote:
> On 05/26/12 16:00, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 12:12 +0200, Norbert van Bolhuis wrote:
> >> This is not a problem for a UBIFS being created dynamically, so with
> >> ubiformat + ubiattach + ubimkvol ? In this case the size of the lprops
> >> area is determined by the total amount of LEBs of the MTD partition ?
> >
> > No, it is set according to the --max-leb-cnt parameter. Then UBIFS will
> > be able to grow up to "--max-leb-cnt" easily.
> >
> >> A UBIFS volume can then be resized with ubirsvol as long as it does not
> >> conflict with other volumes and does not exceed the total amount of
> >> LEBs of the MTD partition ?
> >
> > Yes, and if you resize withing '--max-leb-cnt', the UBIFS will
> > automatically resize itself.
> >
> > http://linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_max_leb_cnt
> >
> 
> I was asking because there is no --max-leb-cnt parameter wen creating a UBIFS
> dynamically, or is there ?

Ah, you mean when mounting an empty volume? No there is not, UBIFS just
picks some value.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy

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