Hi. I have a problem. When i mount my ext3 filesystem of openSUSE to change some settings.
It don’ t let me add files and says that i don’ t have enough space.
So how can i change the space of a mounted filesystem.
Regards, Ryan.
From where, what OS are you mounting your openSUSE partition?
You cannot change the size of a mounted file system.
so it isn’t possible in all ways to add files to a mounted ext3 file? 
Knurpht wrote:
> From where, what OS are you mounting your openSUSE partition?
>
> You cannot change the size of a mounted file system.
Not true. You can certainly resize reiserfs whilst it is mounted. Dunno
about others.
On 08/22/2011 01:26 PM, ryanrio95 wrote:
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> so it isn’t possible in all ways to add files to a mounted ext3 file?
>
>
of course it is possible to add files to a mounted ext3 partition…
but, not if it is full…
and, you can’t make it bigger while mounted–instead you much boot from
a Live CD or other means to have an operating system running without the
too small partition being mounted…
but, instead of asking questions the way you are tell us and what
partition is full (is it the root file partition) and why is it is
full…that is the problem, not being to add files to the full partition
is only the symptom…
we need to treat the problem not the symptom, so please show us the
terminal output from
cat /etc/SuSE-release
zypper lr -d
df -h
cat /proc/partitions
cat /etc/fstab
mount
sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
copy/paste the output back to this thread using the instructions here:
http://goo.gl/i3wnr
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okay, i mounted the file that is on my filesystem. And i have 280Gb of free space so that isn’t the problem.
I’am not at home right now so i can’t test the command lines.
I think the ext3 file has an maximum quota.
On my desktop is the mounted ext3 his name 2,8GB Hard Disk
You’re mixing things up. The filesystem is ext3, a file cannot be ext3. A 280GB drive as one ext3 partition is no problem. If you have free space, that means this space does not belong to any partition. How do you check these things?
okay, iam mounting with mount -o loop opensuse.ext3 /mnt/ext3 is there a code. Something like rsize to set the size of the mounted directory?
Regards, Ryan.
On 08/22/2011 05:36 PM, ryanrio95 wrote:
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> okay, iam mounting with mount -o loop opensuse.ext3 /mnt/ext3 is there a
> code.
what is the nature of the file named opensuse.ext3 which you are
mounting with the loop command??
i only used to mounting a live CD .iso file with the loop command in
order to ‘run’ it as a live system in a VM…
exactly what are you trying to do and why?
btw, my previous answers were ALL wrong because i assummed you were
trying to mount a real partition on a hard drive and add a file to
it…now, i see you question is a totally different scenario
am i correct: you wish to loop mount a file and add to it…maybe i’m
wrong but i think loop mounted files are read only…you can’t write to
it…you can, in a VM take a “snapshot” of the live file and then run
that later…
wait! i don’t know what i’m talking about, and advise you to read man
mount carefully…there you can also read about the resize command
(which i doubt works with loop mounted devices, but maybe it does, i
don’t know!!)
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DD
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i will go through the man pages right now to learn something about the mount command
i read about ext2online and resize2fs
I’am going to test these comand when iam back at home this afternoon
On 08/23/2011 10:36 AM, ryanrio95 wrote:
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> i read about ext2online and resize2fs
> I’am going to test these comand when iam back at home this afternoon
always be careful about reading man pages online!
utilities and their commands change from time to time…so, always
consult the man on the machine you will execute on!!!
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that’s not a problem because i reinstall opensuse every month and have my files on my cruzer
On 08/23/2011 03:56 PM, ryanrio95 wrote:
> i reinstall opensuse every month
wow!
what a waste of time.
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DD
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this is because of i want a stable clean system always 
so i’ am happy i’ am not using windows because using that is a waste of time
I forgot to chroot, so that was the problem.
Regards.
It sounds like you’re making a lot more work for yourself than is necessary. There’s a lot of help here and on the wiki to get your system running as you want it. This isn’t Windows, a clean and rebuild shouldn’t be required except perhaps for an upgrade.
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:16:02 +0000, chief sealth wrote:
> ryanrio95;2377498 Wrote:
>> this is because of i want a stable clean system always
>
> It sounds like you’re making a lot more work for yourself than is
> necessary. There’s a lot of help here and on the wiki to get your system
> running as you want it. This isn’t Windows, a clean and rebuild
> shouldn’t be required except perhaps for an upgrade.
I would tend to agree, unless it’s a test system where a known working
configuration is needed before each test (but if that’s the case, I’d be
inclined to build a VM and take a snapshot of the known working state
rather than rebuild on the base HW every time a new test cycle is
initiated.)
Jim
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