If you could resize your 'partition' (the base.drv file) but after logging in, the df -l command still showed the same % full for the root partition.
There's an extremely easy fix:
apt-get install ext2resize
ext2online /dev/cobd0
or
sudo resize2fs /dev/cobd0
somebody wrote a script to do the same thing in his blog:
From:
http://colinux.wikia.com/wiki/ExpandingRoot#The_fastest_way_to_enlarge_the_root_partition