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[Andrea Bernabei <andrea.bernabei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Thomas Wolfanger <
Thomas.Wolfanger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> first of all, I'd like to thank all the developpers doing a great job
> in bringing ubuntu to mobile devices.
> I'm a more or less first hour owner of an Aquaris E4.5 and I'm pretty
> happy with it. Since I've got Xmir running in order to use pidgin, I'm
> suffering from the small size of the root partition. To remedy this,
> I've created a file with a ext4 file system on the external sd and use
> this to install a touch system there into which I chroot. This works
> more or less.
> I recently came across some articles describing the use of overlayfs
> respectively unionfs. This brought me to the idea that this might be a
> way to extend the root partition and to play with the system without
> having to make the root partition read/writeable. However, I could not
> find any of these file systems to be available in touch. Having some
> experience with compiling kernels, I tried to figure out whether these
> are available in the kernel sources, but either I was not able to find
> them or they are just not there.
> So, after this pretty long introduction, a short question: is overlayfs
> or unionfs available in touch and if not, could it be brought into the
> kernel and what would have to be done for this?
>
> Happy easter and best regards,
> -Thomas
>
>
Hi Thomas,
I'm not familiar with overlayfs and its status in Ubuntu Touch, but let's
see how I can help...

what kernel sources have you investigated?

Cheers,
Andrea


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