Resizing partitions - was Re: [Qemu-devel] crash (SIGSEGV)

[Brad Campbell <brad@wasp.net.au>]

Alexander  wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this time all worked, I've choose to format the partition ext2 and not 
> ext3 ... system is now installed and updated to debian unstable, network 
> works ... YEAH :)
> 
> But the partition was to small :/ so I msut do it again.
> 

where your partition file is xx.file

dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1000 >> xx.file (will add an extra gig to the file size)

 From within the VM, booting off a floppy or other image file.

fdisk /dev/xxx and delete then re-create the parition with the same starting block but to fill the 
rest of the partition.

e2resize /dev/xxx (whatever you use).

I did a dodgy by copying my image.

Loading both of them in qemu, expanding the non-mounted second one, then restarting the vm with the 
second one as the root disk.

Schweet Moite!

Save you a full re-install.

(Works for UML's too)

Brad