On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 20:59 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote: > How do I make a "filesystem in a file" ? Here's one way: # touch filesys # mke2fs -j ./filesys 4000 mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004) ./filesys is not a block special device. Proceed anyway? (y,n) y mke2fs: Filesystem larger than apparent device size. Proceed anyway? (y,n) y max_blocks 4096000, rsv_groups = 500, rsv_gdb = 15 Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block size=1024 (log=0) Fragment size=1024 (log=0) 504 inodes, 4000 blocks 200 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user First data block=1 Maximum filesystem blocks=4194304 1 block group 8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group 504 inodes per group Writing inode tables: done inode.i_blocks = 32, i_size = 67383296 Creating journal (1024 blocks): done Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done This filesystem will be automatically checked every 26 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override. # ls -l filesys -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096000 Dec 1 15:11 filesys # mount ./filesys /mnt/img -o loop Now you can create files in your new filesystem, play with it, then unmount it and turn off journaling. Mount it again and verify that all your files are okay. Once you have done this, you have gained some experience and can do it with other filesystems. Actually, this won't solve your problem with QTparted. It doesn't support resizing ext3 or ext2 filesystems. And from playing around with parted, I think you would run into "Filesystem has incompatible feature enabled" errors if you tried using it. I think your best bet on resizing is my original suggestion. Use resize2fs to resize the filesystem, then use fdisk to resize the partition. -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx>
