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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: joeinwap on December 26, 2020, 09:11:03 PM

Title: How do you make rootfs bigger?
Post by: joeinwap on December 26, 2020, 09:11:03 PM

Right now, Linux does not get fully started.  UDEV complains about no space on the device.

This is after installing Perl and Chromium on a 256MB laptop.  (t is certified for Windows 2000 Pro.)  I thought a reboot would make it recalculate the appropriate size for rootfs, but alas.)

I fear that I will have to redo the full install, do something to increase rootfs, and reboot.  But I don't know how to do that.

Title: Re: How do you make rootfs bigger?
Post by: tinycorelinux on December 26, 2020, 09:33:56 PM

What you need is persistence, Instead of modifying rootfs(core.gz/ corepure64.gz), which is explained in detail in the link below.
http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=wiki:start#persistence (http://wiki.tinycorelinux.net/doku.php?id=wiki:start#persistence)

Title: Re: How do you make rootfs bigger?
Post by: NewUser on December 26, 2020, 09:49:11 PM

Don't forget to read the book:  http://tinycorelinux.net/book.html

Title: Re: How do you make rootfs bigger?
Post by: curaga on December 27, 2020, 12:14:29 AM

It sounds like you installed them copy2fs, in RAM. That's a bad idea when you don't have much RAM.