[ubuntu-us-mi] expand USB persistent disk under Ubuntu

[Greg Grossmeier]

Thanks Robert!

I just wanted to quickly say that I appreciate the quick how-to messages
you send, even though I don't always say thank you.

So, Thank you!

Greg

<quote name="Robert Citek" date="2012-09-19" time="15:07:05 -0400">
> At the last Bug Jam I created a bootable USB stick.  Unfortunately, I
> specified a persistent disk that was too small.  Booting from a CD, I
> was able to expand the persistent disk on the USB stick by an
> additional 1GB using these steps:
> 
> # mount USB drive, often automounted to someplace under /media/ as
> soon as the stick is inserted
> 
> # open a terminal and cd to the USB drive
> cd /media/CD6A-1A89/
> 
> # check the filesystem on the persistent file
> fsck.ext3 casper-rw
> 
> # append 1 GB of zeros onto the file
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1000 >> casper-rw
> 
> # expand the filesystem to use the new space
> resize2fs casper-rw
> 
> # exit the shell and eject the USB stick
> 
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