resizing partitions on piCore 7.0

[bobl]

I want to reduce the size of the package partition mmcblk0p2 in my case but that requires mmcblk0p2 to be unmounted. Doing that though kills ssh. so best I put the resize2fs command into a startup script that runs before mmcblk0p2 gets mounted.  Where should that go?

[bmarkus]

Depending on available RAM and installed TCZ packages the easiest way is to copy all used extensions to RAM. Than you can safely umount mmcblk2 and do what you want.

[bobl]

do you have a magic incantation for that

[bobl]

I managed to do it in the shutdown script by changing the script to

umount /dev/mmcblk0p2
/resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2 <size>
umount -afr

...


and copying resize2fs into the root directory, the beauty is that once executed the scripts are wiped clean across the reboot because / is in ram.

After the reboot I reduced the partition size to match in fdisk.