# HG changeset patch
# User Paul Boddie <paul@boddie.org.uk>
# Date 1421353106 -3600
# Node ID 36a3b8a630a48ab6ecc8d899ef1675b9770cd2dc
# Parent  693f3a6d9dfe70765caca5be98dc11505e95ea3f
Added notes on filesystem resizing and uml-net invocation.

diff -r 693f3a6d9dfe -r 36a3b8a630a4 README.txt
--- a/README.txt	Wed Nov 13 00:17:17 2013 +0100
+++ b/README.txt	Thu Jan 15 21:18:26 2015 +0100
@@ -319,6 +319,18 @@
 This does not create filesystems but instead leaves it to the installer to
 partition the files created.
 
+Resizing Filesystems
+--------------------
+
+To change the size of filesystems later on, use the resize2fs command after
+having checked the filesystem. For example, with a root filesystem file called
+root-root.fs and a desired new filesystem size of 6GB:
+
+/sbin/e2fsck -f root-root.fs
+/sbin/resize2fs root-root.fs 6G
+
+Obviously, these commands will only work with ext2 family filesystems.
+
 Building User Mode Linux
 ------------------------
 
@@ -332,7 +344,9 @@
 sudo uml-net --start $USER
 
 Here, $USER should be expanded to the name of the user running the above
-command, not the root user.
+command, not the root user. If invoked as above using sudo, the name of the
+invoking user should be provided by $USER because the shell will expand that
+variable before any program is run.
 
 To stop networking, use the same script: