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[Jim Hodapp <jim.hodapp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 5:34 AM, Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> hi,
> Am Donnerstag, den 08.05.2014, 18:12 +1000 schrieb Michi Henning:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I was trying to build on the phone today (unity-scopes-api) and found
> that the build dependencies for it won't fit on the root partition.
> >
> > Is there anything I can do (easily) to get more space on the root
> partition so I can install all the packages I need?
> >
> while you should really better use a chroot or cross build, you can
> pulll the image off the device, resize it and push it back similar to :
> http://paste.ubuntu.com/7351834/


Even easier, get a copy of resize2fs for armhf, adb push it to the target
in recovery mode, and run the following:

e2fsck -fy /data/system.img
./resize2fs /data/system.img 3000M
reboot


>
> note though that pushing/pulling such a big file takes ages ... and you
> should still better cross compile or use a qemu chroot ;)
>
> ciao
>         oli
>
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