Sailfish OS how to create, enlarge, and resize root LVM partitions? [answered]
asked 2016-12-23 03:32:25 +0200
This is a question and while it appears possible to increase the root LVM partition in Debian Linux on the fly has anybody in the Jolla/Sailfish community ever tried that on their Sailfish Phone?
I would like this thread to focus on available sailfish commands for partitionipartition ng, increasing/enlarging partition sizes of virtual volumes.
The goal is to allocate free storage in partition "A", 9.5GB (non-root) to a small and limited storage in partition "B", 2.5GB (root). In addition the root partition B houses the SFOS 2.0.5.6 for example, and the partiton A houses the /home data with data currently in it but a lot of available free space ~69GB.
Based on my one try it is supposed to be and i was partially able to create a new partition of the size i wanted, but failed at assigning that new partiton space to the root partiton in order to enlarge it.
My try using fdisk and other linux commands is illustrated here as seen in the notes.
https://together.jolla.com/question/153509/update-requires-500mb-warning/
most of us only have 16GB devices, so it doesn't really make a lot of sense to try resizing partitions. Ported phones don't use LVM either so you might need to pioneer this one yourself.
r0kk3rz ( 2016-12-23 10:43:28 +0200 )editanswered in your old question
coderus ( 2016-12-23 10:46:50 +0200 )edit