Resizing of an existing UBIFS

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Sat May 26 10:00:35 EDT 2012


On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 12:12 +0200, Norbert van Bolhuis wrote:
> This is not a problem for a UBIFS being created dynamically, so with
> ubiformat + ubiattach + ubimkvol ? In this case the size of the lprops
> area is determined by the total amount of LEBs of the MTD partition ?

No, it is set according to the --max-leb-cnt parameter. Then UBIFS will
be able to grow up to "--max-leb-cnt" easily.

> A UBIFS volume can then be resized with ubirsvol as long as it does not
> conflict with other volumes and does not exceed the total amount of
> LEBs of the MTD partition ?

Yes, and if you resize withing '--max-leb-cnt', the UBIFS will
automatically resize itself.

http://linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_max_leb_cnt

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy
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