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ok, so you have DSL on usb drive? is it the /dev/sda? what partition is /dev/root.old?
Do you just want to resize the partition? do you have unallocated space before/after it?
I used resize2fs to expand the sda2 partition to 2.7 gb but the size of /root is still 2.9mb. As it cannot be expand from live cd because the os installation is frugal.How can I unmount the /root partition?
You do realize that when you boot from a live cd the root partition is different than the root partition of your installed system, right?
what partition is mounted as root in your system?
DSL is a good little distribution but it hasn't been supported for some time and won't be.
What is on that 1.8GB FAT32 partition?
Were you ever able to boot DSL on the USB? With a root folder of 2.9MB, I don't see how you could since the iso image file is around 50MB.
If you were able to boot it, what changes were made before this problem occurred?
OK,let me make it clear!!
I am not talking about the /(root partition) here,I am talking about /root folder which is by default 2.9mb in size on dsl.
I did the usb-hdd install of dsl which by default makes two partition .One is the ext3 where all the OS data is located with the size of 50mb and the remaining are fat partition which contains mydsl extensions.The usb installation is similar to that of live CD,usb-install too contains the compressed knoppix image file and kernel boot loader etc.I guess to re-size the /root folder it should be booted from flash drive itself.
I tried
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resize2fs /dev/root
but it couldn't re-size because it was mounted.I tried to unmount but couldn't unmount it.
I guess I explain the problem as possible I can!!
OK,let me make it clear!!
I am not talking about the /(root partition) here,I am talking about /root folder which is by default 2.9mb in size on dsl.
you mean the root's home folder? Is it on a separate partition then? or is there a quota or something?
why do you resize /dev/root then? dev/root is the / (root partition)
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