From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@uclibc.org>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] Unable to create files inside mounted root filesystem
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:28:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wsakt8l.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1225116460.30688.1281460263@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Adam McLaurin's message of "Mon\, 27 Oct 2008 10\:07\:40 -0400")
>>>>> "Adam" == Adam McLaurin <buildroot@irotas.net> writes:
Hi,
>> config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_BLOCKS
>> int "size in blocks (leave at 0 for auto calculation)"
>> depends on BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2
>> default 0
>>
>> config BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_INODES
>> int "inodes (leave at 0 for auto calculation)"
>> depends on BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2
>> default 0
Adam> Yep, that was indeed the problem. However, it's not really
Adam> clear to me how the block size is computed by genext2fs, so
Adam> it's hard to know exactly how many blocks to allocate. I took a
Adam> guess at 204088 blocks and 100000 inodes, which is probably
Adam> overkill but seems to work.
True. Those options are forwarded directly to genext2fs (-b and -N
options), so have a look at the man page of genext2fs for details.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-27 14:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-27 13:08 [Buildroot] Unable to create files inside mounted root filesystem Adam McLaurin
2008-10-27 13:15 ` Roberto A. Foglietta
2008-10-27 13:21 ` Adam McLaurin
2008-10-27 13:22 ` Peter Korsgaard
2008-10-27 14:07 ` Adam McLaurin
2008-10-27 14:28 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2008-10-27 15:55 ` Adam McLaurin
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