How to allocate more space to Wubi?

[Famicommander]

When I first installed Feisty with Wubi, I only allocated a small amount of space, thinking I would get bored and go back to Windows.

As it turns out, I haven't booted Windows since I installed. I'm very much enjoying Ubuntu, but it seems that I'm quickly running out of the space I allocated.

Is there any way to allocate more space to Wubi without actually having to uninstall and then reinstall?

And help would be much appreciated.

[Planets]

Use LVPM.

http://lubi.sourceforge.net/lvpm.html

[mikedep333]

This is much appreciated as the wubi installer does not give you very many options for the size to install to.

[TorontoStorm]

i can get a message in wubi gutsy when i try lvpm. it says it must be a loopmounted partition, and it is cause i'm running it from inside wubi! anyone know a solution?

[antimatter15]

i can get a message in wubi gutsy when i try lvpm. it says it must be a loopmounted partition, and it is cause i'm running it from inside wubi! anyone know a solution?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/lvpm/+bug/165079

Here's an edited version (makes stuff more clear)

cd /host/ubuntu/disks
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=extra.virtual.disk bs=1000 count=0 seek=$[1000*1000*10]
sudo mkfs.ext3 -F extra.virtual.disk

In this example, the file generated is 10 GB, change the numbers at the end of the command beginning with dd to adjust the sizes.

Now, once you have a virtual disk file, you mount it:

sudo mkdir /media/newhome
sudo mount -o loop extra.virtual.disk /media/newhome

Then you recursively copy the contents of /home to /media/newhome:

sudo rsync -avx /home/ /media/newhome

Now unmount the new virtual disk and remove the mountpoint:

sudo umount /media/newhome
sudo rm -r /media/newhome

Now reboot into Windows and move C:\ubuntui\disks\home.virtual.disk somewhere else and rename extra.virtual.disk to home.virtual.disk, then you should have a new /home with a larger size

[mpince]

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=extra.virtual.disk bs=1000 count=0 seek=$[1000*1000*10]

I created a virtual disk by substituting 1000*4] for 1000*10] in the above code.

It worked, but the virtual disk only comes out to 3.7 GB

Is there a way to create a solid 4 GB, or better yet, a size that makes full use of an entire DVD-R (for backup)?

[ago]

bs=1GB count=4

[TorontoStorm]

to make a 50GB virtual disk do i do this line:
sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=extra.virtual.disk bs=1000 count=0 seek=$[1000*1000*50]

also, i assume that creates a larger home (/home) virtual drive.
what if i want a larger root drive?

also, if i look in W:/ubuntu/disks there are three files with the following names: home.disk, root.disk, and swap.disk.
there is no home.virtual.disk

[mpince]

bs=1GB count=4

Thanks ago!

Also, thank you for making wubi-- it has helped me use ubuntu in ways that I never would have with a Live CD.

[mpince]

also, if i look in W:/ubuntu/disks there are three files with the following names: home.disk, root.disk, and swap.disk.
there is no home.virtual.disk

home.disk is the one you want. I think home.virtual.disk is from previous versions. I just renamed mine to-- old.home.disk