[uClibc] genext2fs and loss of keyboard

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Fri Sep 17 14:33:31 UTC 2004


On Fri Sep 17, 2004 at 07:16:29AM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
> >The version of genext2fs included in buildroot has been patched
> >and does indeed support larger filesystems.  I've used it to
> >produce quite large filesystems i.e. > ~80MB before.
> 
> That's odd... I could have sworn I read you telling someone else about 
> the 8MB limit on this list in the past couple of weeks :-)
> 
> I know when I tried to build a 15MB filesystem, I got the 'not enough 
> space on device' error from genext2fs. When I switched to building the 
> filesystem using dd/mke2fs/mount -o loop, it worked fine.

Edit buildroot/make/ext2root.mk and increase
GENEXT2_ADDTOROOTSIZE and/or GENEXT2_INODES and it should work.
You get 'not enough space on device' errors since the current
guesstimate of rootfs size rather sucks, and does not account for
device table added device nodes, large numbers of files, etc.

 -Erik

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