How to get a larger root partition on Touch

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Published on 2014-08-23T02:25:15Z Indexed on 2014/08/23 4:28 UTC
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I'm trying to make Touch (14.10) work as an Ubuntu server. However the root partition is only 2 GB and is insufficient for the packages I need to install. Is there any way to get more space on the root partition?

Thus far I've tried:

  • resize2fs on /dev/loop0 won't work since the kernel doesn't support online resizing and I can't unmount root (ro doesn't cut it, even with -f).

  • Adding 2 GB to the end of /userdata/ubuntu.img works, but resize2fs on the file doesn't help.

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