Resizing 'debian.img'?

[Guest ilovemodaco]

Installed Debian on a rooted Hero and now I'm kinda limited to the 750MB debian.img so I tried to follow this http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/communit...610&catid=9 to resize the debian.img file but there are several 'problems':

First I don't have a linux on my current box, I boot it from inside VMWare on Windows 7. Second, when I did the commands (successfully) and tried to copy back (to windooze/phone) the 3.5GB img it gave me some errors turns out the reason is the different filesystems so yar, I can't do the resize and file move that way...

My question is is it possible to resize the image from inside Android? Think that'd be a cool feature... I saw that busybox includes dd but not mke2fs so any tips on doing it? And would it be wise to do such heavy operations under my Hero?

Thanks people!

~ilovemodaco

[Guest kendon]

Installed Debian on a rooted Hero and now I'm kinda limited to the 750MB debian.img so I tried to follow this http://www.androidfanatic.com/cms/communit...610&catid=9 to resize the debian.img file but there are several 'problems':

First I don't have a linux on my current box, I boot it from inside VMWare on Windows 7. Second, when I did the commands (successfully) and tried to copy back (to windooze/phone) the 3.5GB img it gave me some errors turns out the reason is the different filesystems so yar, I can't do the resize and file move that way...

My question is is it possible to resize the image from inside Android? Think that'd be a cool feature... I saw that busybox includes dd but not mke2fs so any tips on doing it? And would it be wise to do such heavy operations under my Hero?

Thanks people!

~ilovemodaco

the guide you linked should work, i have created several images with that set of instructions...

what exactly is the problem with different filesystems, and why are you using different fs at all?

not sure about creating the image in android, but if you can't find or compile a mke2fs i wouldn't know how...

[Guest ilovemodaco]

Guess the problem is with VMware in Windows 7 >_> Just didn't allow me to copy the file... anyway found a workaround:

Started FTP server on the Hero and connected via ftp from the vmwareD Ubuntu B) Connection was okay, files transferred fast.

By the way the different fs thing is about vmware and the fs underlying Ubuntu instalation I have no freakin' idea why I can't copy the files from the virtual box to my windows 7. I might try and resize the image from Hero just to see how/if it works :)

Thanks for your reply kendon!

the guide you linked should work, i have created several images with that set of instructions...

what exactly is the problem with different filesystems, and why are you using different fs at all?

not sure about creating the image in android, but if you can't find or compile a mke2fs i wouldn't know how...

[Guest kendon]

Guess the problem is with VMware in Windows 7 >_> Just didn't allow me to copy the file... anyway found a workaround:

Started FTP server on the Hero and connected via ftp from the vmwareD Ubuntu B) Connection was okay, files transferred fast.

By the way the different fs thing is about vmware and the fs underlying Ubuntu instalation I have no freakin' idea why I can't copy the files from the virtual box to my windows 7. I might try and resize the image from Hero just to see how/if it works :)

Thanks for your reply kendon!

lol sorry, finally i got your problem (actually by reading the first post again). i thought you couldn't copy the contents of image, not the image itself.

if you tried to copy the image to a fat32 partition then it is obvious, fat32 can only handle files up to 2gb.

[Guest ilovemodaco]

lol sorry, finally i got your problem (actually by reading the first post again). i thought you couldn't copy the contents of image, not the image itself.

if you tried to copy the image to a fat32 partition then it is obvious, fat32 can only handle files up to 2gb.

Did not know that! :)''