[haiku-development] Re: Expanding Haiku partition
- From: CarozoDeQuilmes <carozodequilmes@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2011 10:51:02 -0300
Hi Urias, thanks for your fast reply.
It worked very fine and took only 10 minuts (aprox)
Now, I have a primary partition with 2GB and I could install Qt 8 into it.
Thanks again
CdQ
On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 8:19 PM, Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 2:30 PM, CarozoDeQuilmes
> <carozodequilmes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I expanded the virtual disk by VMWare tool to 2GB but Haiku don't use
>> the extra space.
>
> Correct, because expanding a disk is not the same as expanding a
> partition, and expanding a partition is not the same as expanding a
> filesystem.
>
>> There is any software to expand the primary partition from Haiku ?
>
> Not yet, but it's currently in our list of GSoC 2011 ideas:
>
> http://www.haiku-os.org/community/gsoc/2011/ideas
>
> (See: "BFS Partition Resizer")
>
> What I would recommend is creating a new virtual disk, initializing it
> with DriveSetup, and using the Installer to install your existing
> setup to it. Note: I only recommend doing this with a version of Haiku
>> r40820 as there was a nice addition to the Installer that copies
> indexes to the target partition now ;)
>
> - Urias
>
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CdQ
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