On Friday 31 Jul 2015 19:19:06 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > on my tablet PC I used an Android App called "Linux deploy" > to install an chroot-environment for - guess - Gentoo. :) > > The tablet has a SDcard slot and recognizes any FAT32 formatted > SDcard automatically. Anything else will silently be ignored. > > Furthermore Linux deploy uses a single file when it is > pointed to an external SDcard (with FAT32) which is mounted > via a loop device, formatted ext4, and then populated with > the Gentoo Linux files. > > So far so nice. > > Unfortunately the file size is limited to 4GB, which is not > /that/ much in respect to what I want to install later (Linux > deploy goes as far as LXDE runs a terminal and only a few moe things). > > I created a second file of 4GB and set it up as a "second partition". > This is now additional storage capacity of another 4GB. > > BUT: > Linux deploy already installed a full rootfs and more on the first > file. And I need to increase the size of _the whole rootfs_ with this > extra file ... not only the storage capacity located behind a certain > mountpoint. > > Is there any way to add the capacity of the second file in a way, that > the whole rootfs participates from/in/at/of (damn! sorry, I am not > good with/at/in/of/from propositions) this? > > How can I deal with this? > > Thank you very much in advance for any help! > Best regards, > Meino
Have you tried mounting it with '-o loop' from your chrooted system? However, this won't work unless the chrooted system can see the new partition. -- Regards, Mick
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