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23. October 2004

Playing with Qemu
Linux (wiki) - urs @ 14:48:17

Well, a 600MB image for Debian turned out to be a bit too optimistic, at least, if I would like to run Gnome ;) So I was looking for a way to resize the image. Actually, I am not sure if this will work, but it sound reasonable:

You need to boot up with a rescue CD. Then you can use the command line tools e2fsck and resize2fs. For example:

e2fsck -f /dev/hda3
resize2fs /dev/hda3 2000M

You can also use GUI tools like qtparted [1].

Eventually one could just mount another bigger image and move the system to it [2]. Just a guess.

[1] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?postid=956898
[2] http://linux.simple.be/debian/install