Resizing of an existing UBIFS

[Artem Bityutskiy]

On Tue, 2012-05-22 at 08:41 +0200, Robert Homann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a short question: Is it possible to expand the size of a UBIFS
> without creating a new image file or reformatting from scratch?
> 
> Suppose you have a UBIFS whose --max-leb-cnt has been set so to limit
> its size to 100 MiB. Now suppose this UBIFS lives in a dynamic UBI
> volume which gets expanded to a size of the whole partition, say,
> 150 MiB. Being limited by the --max-leb-cnt parameter, the contained
> UBIFS is expanded to only 100 MiB, and the rest of the space in the
> volume is wasted. Is it possible to resize the UBIFS so that it can make
> use of the now wasted space?

Unfortunately there are not tools for this :-( You could write one,
though :-)

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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