From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:22:41 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Unable to create files inside mounted root filesystem In-Reply-To: <1225112903.16248.1281448757@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Adam McLaurin's message of "Mon\, 27 Oct 2008 09\:08\:23 -0400") References: <1225112903.16248.1281448757@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <873aiimau6.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Adam" == Adam McLaurin writes: Hi, Adam> I hope this is a typical newbie question. I was finally able to Adam> create a root filesystem (ext2) with buildroot, and I can mount Adam> (-o loop) and chroot into it with no problems. Adam> The trouble is that I cannot create any files in the mounted Adam> filesystem: / # touch foo touch: foo: No space left on device That's because genext2fs only creates the file system exactly big enough for the buildroot files. If you want to have room for more stuff take a look at the BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_BLOCKS/INODES options: