Re: Making a partition larger without affecting my OS.

On 3/14/26 10:06 AM, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> As some know, on my old and new rig, I compile my updates in a chroot
> environment.  Then I copy the binaries over and use the -k option on my
> running OS.  That way I don't have a crash when one program is updated
> and another it depends on is not yet updated. Anyway, my chroot is
> getting squeezed a little.  I need to expand it another 30GBs or so so
> that I don't get not enough space errors. It's only the largest packages
> right now but the next larger ones are growing and will start having
> issues as well.  I have a m.2 stick for my OS.  It's a 1TB stick.  I
> have plenty of space unused. I did the OS first and then did a partition
> for the chroot thingy. The partition named build-part is the chroot. 
> The parts above it are the OS.  This is the current layout.



Nobody mentions the elephant in the room! Why have separate partitions?
I have a build chroot too -- it is on the main FS. It works totally fine
and can grow larger automatically.



-- 
Eli Schwartz

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