From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnout Vandecappelle Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 23:36:12 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Ext4 rootfs option In-Reply-To: <878vkd3rbo.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <4F3220B8.9040604@renta.net> <201202082310.49254.arnout@mind.be> <878vkd3rbo.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <201202092336.12939.arnout@mind.be> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On Wednesday 08 February 2012 23:15:07 Peter Korsgaard wrote: > >>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle writes: > > Hi, > > Arnout> I currently use genext2fs, followed by tune2fs to add the > Arnout> journal and e2fsck to fix the incorrect FS version number. But > Arnout> it's extremely inefficient, especially since genext2fs first > Arnout> builds the filesystem in memory before committing to the output > Arnout> image. Not good when you want to create a 500GB partition :-) > > Wow, you're using Buildroot for systems with 500GB rootfs? Must be those > binary video codecs / GPU drivers you were talking about ;) Actually, no. I wrote the script so it was possible to write the image to a block device, and it would determine the required fs size automatically. And then some idiot had the idea of plugging in a USB harddisk instead of the normal 1GB compactflash card... Serves me right for trying to be too generic. Regards, Arnout -- Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind be Senior Embedded Software Architect +32-16-286540 Essensium/Mind http://www.mind.be G.Geenslaan 9, 3001 Leuven, Belgium BE 872 984 063 RPR Leuven LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/arnoutvandecappelle GPG fingerprint: 7CB5 E4CC 6C2E EFD4 6E3D A754 F963 ECAB 2450 2F1F