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On 05/11/2011 06:01 PM, Joshua Lock wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-11 at 17:43 -0600, Gary Thomas wrote:
>> I'm trying to increase the size of the pseudo disk used by Qemu.
>> The variable IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE sets this.  If I add
>>     IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE_ext3=512000
>> to conf/local.conf, I get what I want.
>>
>> So why doesn't this work (without any changes to local.conf)?
>>     IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE_ext3=512000 bitbake core-image-sato
>>
>
> The IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE variable is cleaned from the environment.
>
> Variables which can be set from the shell at invocation are defined in
> BB_ENV_WHITELIST and BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE.
>
> Does something like:
>
> BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE="IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE $BB_ENV_EXTRAWHITE"
> IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE_ext3=512000 bitbake core-image-sato
>
> do what you want?

Sadly, no.  I tried both
   IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE_ext3=512000 bitbake core-image-sato
and
   IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE=512000 bitbake core-image-sato
and I just get the default size image.

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