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[Bry Wilson <bry_wilson@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Alan,
That's a great link of yours, thanks muchly - I certainly hadn't managed to stumble on to that in my various interweb searches. I'll hopefully give it a shot sometime this week and let you know how it works out - a little concerned about whether (or how) this will affect the OTA updates - but hey, if you don't buy a ticket, you don't win the raffle. And the possibility of a full LaTeX install on Ubuntu Touch is worth the ticket :-)
Cheers
Bry


      From: Alan Griffiths <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 To: ubuntu-phone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
 Sent: Tuesday, 12 January 2016, 12:52
 Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-phone] Resizing rootfs
   
 On 12/01/16 11:18, Bry Wilson wrote:
  
 
  I remember some time back that there was mention of possible resizing of the rootfs in the future - is there any update on this? I only have 146 MB of my rootfs (/dev/loop0) available but 8GB of my userdata (/dev/mmcblk0p23) remaining - it would be great to resize that rootfs (possibly as an extra parameter in the  ubuntu-device-flash script!) to avail of all that /userdata space. 
 
 Bry,
 
 it is probably too clunky for your use case, but I've used a chroot on the user partition to install stuff (e.g. http://accu.org/index.php/journals/2158).
 
 I've not looked into it but maybe for your case you could use an unprivileged LXC container to install TeX Live - I'd be interested to know how well that works. 
 
 Alan
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