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From: Dzuy Nguyen <dzuy@infinity-studios.com>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Compressed root FS & DoC partition
Date: Fri, 08 Mar 2002 16:08:39 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C893667.3050204@infinity-studios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: AEA9DCA73595D411A6D4009027DE9C5E019BFA5E@MSI-EX6

I don't want to store the compressed root FS on a formatted (ext2) 
partition.  The idea is to make the OS
parts that are not changing (/, /usr) "less" accessible (in flash 
memory), load and run it in memory,
and store the system's config (/etc) and logging (/var) on an ext2 so 
all writing to it will be saved.

I can dformat half of the DoC but when I mke2fs it, the nftl driver 
complains.  I can use nftl_format
portion of the DoC and mke2fs OK.  Problem is I can't make it bootable 
like dformat does, so I'll try
grub to boot instead of LILO.

Vadim Khmelnitsky wrote:

>How about just formatting the whole diskonchip with dformat and then
>partitioning it to two logical partitions by using Linux fdisk .
>
>Vadim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dzuy Nguyen [mailto:dzuy@infinity-studios.com]
>Sent: Thu, March 07, 2002 2:37 PM
>To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
>Subject: Compressed root FS & DoC partition
>
>
>I have a 16MB DoC 2000.  I am able to boot make an ext2 FS on and boot 
>via LILO.
>
>Now, I want to be able to make it boot to a compressed root FS.  I've 
>created my own
>compressed root FS (about 6MB).  I figured I'd partition the DoC into 2 
>parts of 8MB
>each.  The first part is to hold the root FS (and possibly kernel) and 
>the latter part an
>ext2 FS to store system's configuration files (to mount on /etc later).
>
>I've tried both using dformat and nftl_format to format half of the DoC 
>and mke2fs it.
>It just refuses to make the formatted half an ext2 unless the entire DoC 
>is formatted.
>
>Am I on the wrong path here?  Can someone point me to the right 
>direction?  Thanks.
>
>Dzuy
>
>
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       reply	other threads:[~2002-03-08 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AEA9DCA73595D411A6D4009027DE9C5E019BFA5E@MSI-EX6>
2002-03-08 22:08 ` Dzuy Nguyen [this message]
2002-03-07 22:36 Compressed root FS & DoC partition Dzuy Nguyen
2002-03-08  7:06 ` Kristian Hoffmann

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