08 Oct
resize loop disk image
Having started to play with xen on linux, I have begun to use loop filesystems (a filesystem embedded in a file) rather a lot.
Xen virtual servers are, fairly often, run from within a loop filesystem and generally start with a fairly small file (1GB is big for a normal file, but not when it is pretending to be an entire filesystem!)
Here’s a nice simple shortcut for increasing the size of a loop fs (if the filesystem is ext2/ext3) …
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