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Tailor - Version: 0.3 (? January 2012)

Native GUI Partitioning and Filesystem Resizing Tool

Summary

Tailor (formerly Resizah) is an on-device live partition and filesystem editor for webOS.

Key features

Unmount Partition
Check Filesystem
Repair Filesystem
Corrupt Filesystem
Resize Filesystem
Resize Partition
Mount Partition
Create Partition
Delete Partition

Status

Tailor is available in the beta applications feed. Make sure you are willing to comply with the obligations associated with the beta testing feeds before using the instructions at http://testing.preware.org/ to access those feeds.

Installing Tailor

Tailor is available in the beta-applications feed in Preware.

Usage

Resize Media Partition

At launch, Tailor will show all active partitions on your device.

In the Select Partition area, tap the "USB (media)" partition.
Tap the green "Unmount Partition" button to take the partition offline prior to resizing operations.
The green button should change to "Check Filesystem". Tap it. This will begin a filesystem check to guarantee consistency before resizing operations.

Bugs

No known bugs.

Forum Thread

The official Tailor forum thread is at http://forums.webosnation.com/webos-internals/304871-tailor-device-live-partition-filesystem-editor-beta-testing.html

Changelog

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 == Usage ==
+=== Resize Media Partition ===
+At launch, Tailor will show all active partitions on your device.
+#In the Select Partition area, tap the "USB (media)" partition.
+#Tap the green "Unmount Partition" button to take the partition offline prior to resizing operations.
+#The green button should change to "Check Filesystem". Tap it. This will begin a filesystem check to guarantee consistency before resizing operations.