Help resizing the root partitiion

baruchiro

@matteo Hi, I just installed this tool, but I cant press on anything

tera

@padraic @baruchiro @matteo Got the same issue on FP2 and solved it by adding this line to /etc/fstab:

/userdata/system-data//var/cache/apt/archives /var/cache/apt/archives none bind 0 0

Issue then a sudo mount -a and retry installing...

baruchiro

@tera Can you briefly explain what you have done here?

baruchiro

@tera I also did not understand if there was a mistake in the characters //?

/userdata/system-data//var/cache

tera

@baruchiro Adding this line will allow you to mount that /var/cache/.. folder inside the larger /userdata partition so there is space available to perform the package installation (double slashes are expected, check similar existing lines in /etc/fstab and note it's a bind mount)
Not sure if such change should be made persistant or only considered as a workaround...

baruchiro

@tera It did not work, with the following error:

mount: special device /userdata/system-data//var/cache/apt/archives does not exist

But yesterday I somehow managed to make it work, but then I reinstalled and now I can not.

tera

@baruchiro You may have to create the folders in /userdata/system-data/var/cache/... i do not recall if i did or not on my side

baruchiro

Works, Thanks!

jezek

You can bind /var/cache/apt/archives temporary, using mount -o bind command.

# create dir in userdata space 
$ sudo mkdir -p /userdata/system-data/var/cache/apt/archives
# mount - bind
$ sudo mount -o bind /userdata/system-data/var/cache/apt/archives /var/cache/apt/archives/

Now your /var/cache/apt/archives has more space until reboot.

myii

This has worked for numerous users: https://forums.ubports.com/post/13645.

I've found running these commands works more reliably from fastboot mode.