Resizing of an existing UBIFS

Ricard Wanderlof ricard.wanderlof at axis.com
Fri May 25 04:00:16 EDT 2012


On Fri, 25 May 2012, Robert Homann wrote:

> It is definitely a lot simpler to just set this parameter to some big 
> value and generate new images from scratch since the overhead in space 
> consumption is not an issue in this case. But let's say, in my case the 
> purpose of using such a resizing tool is not space optimization, but 
> fixing a former decision...

I think this is a most important point. Whatever sizing strategy and 
volume sizes that are decided upon, one can be sure that a couple of years 
down the line differing circumstances will require a re-think of that 
strategy, no matter how well founded the decision was to start with.

/Ricard
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