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I want to create a disk image with two partition, boot partition and rootfs partition.
I want boot to be a fixed size and rootfs to be easily resizeable to fill the target device after the image is dded to it.
Resizing file system using resize2fs is trivial, but manipulating the partition table is not.
Is there a way to let rootfs partition and file system fill the whole drive safely?
Make the /boot and swap (if any) partitions the first partition(s), and / the last partition.
/ can then easily be resized to take up the rest of the disk.
If you need any other partitions, also put them before the / partition.
BTW, you might want to look into clonezilla. It can do this kind of partition resizing automatically.
easily be resized to take up the rest of the disk." Please provide more on the easily which is what I'm asking in the question.
Dec 4, 2015 at 14:15
gparted as a graphical tool to resize partitions (it will also automatically resize the fs too), or you can use parted on he command-line, using parted's resizepart command. if you've set things up as i described above, you can just extend the rootfs to the end of the disk. You'll need to run resize2fs to resize the fs after the partition has been resized.