Tiny Core Linux

General TC => Tiny Core on Virtual Machines => Topic started by: basil123 on May 31, 2013, 06:58:47 PM

Title: how to increase the size of rootfs
Post by: basil123 on May 31, 2013, 06:58:47 PM
I am using virtual box to run tiny core....

my tiny core virtual hard disk has size of 12gb..I used kuubuntu then i mounted my tiny core drive on Kubuntu system..then i used gparted to increase the size of the tiny core hard disk...although the size increased but when i checked after running tiny core it showed increase in sda1 but the rootfs is still 450 Mb...

How can i increase my rootfs system?
Title: Re: how to increase the size of rootfs
Post by: tinypoodle on May 31, 2013, 07:07:16 PM
You could assign more RAM to your vm.
Title: Re: how to increase the size of rootfs
Post by: basil123 on June 01, 2013, 08:22:31 PM
Thank you..it worked.. but do you thing is there any other way we can increase the size of rootfs ??
Title: Re: how to increase the size of rootfs
Post by: tinypoodle on June 01, 2013, 08:49:35 PM
Well, according to documentation, tmpfs could be resized on the fly, but I wouldn't know if that applies for the special case of rootfs.

Another option might be remastering and editing /init.

Default size in Core is 90% of available RAM, so whatever you would do, you would have to guarantee first that there is enough swapspace available.