[yocto] raspberrypi image questions
Tomas Frydrych
tf+lists.yocto at r-finger.com
Wed Sep 5 22:27:31 PDT 2012
On 05/09/12 22:56, Jack Mitchell wrote:
> On 05/09/2012 22:46, Paul Eggleton wrote:
>> On Wednesday 05 September 2012 12:16:44 Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> I just built Yocto/Poky for the raspberrypi, following the
>>> recent thread on this list. I noticed that the resulting SD
>>> image is ~4GB, but most of that space seems to be unused:
>>>
>>> $ ssh root at 192.168.1.150
>>> Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.150' (RSA) to the list of
>>> known
>>> hosts. root at 192.168.1.150's password:
>>> root at raspberrypi:~# df
>>> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/root 57388 46754 7718 86% /
>>> none 93964 156 93808 0% /dev
>>> /dev/mmcblk0p2 57388 46754 7718 86%
>>> /media/mmcblk0p2
>>> /dev/mmcblk0p1 19400 8928 10472 46%
>>> /media/mmcblk0p1
>>> tmpfs 93964 56 93908 0%
>>> /var/volatile
>>> tmpfs 93964 0 93964 0% /dev/shm
>>> tmpfs 93964 0 93964 0% /media/ram
>>> root at raspberrypi:~# cat /proc/partitions
>>> major minor #blocks name
>>>
>>> 179 0 3977216 mmcblk0
>>> 179 1 19456 mmcblk0p1
>>> 179 2 3885056 mmcblk0p2
>>>
>>> Notice that the physical partition for /dev/mmcblk0p2 is huge but
>>> the file system is only 57MB.
>>>
>>> How can I adjust my build and/or resize the file system to actually
>>> use the rest of the SD card?
>> I suspect a resize2fs call is needed in there. Since the SD card class in
>> meta-raspberrypi was changed to use the actual ext2 rootfs image
>> instead of
>> creating a new one on the fly, this has become an issue. I would
>> suggest filing
>> the issue on the meta-raspberrypi github.
>>
>>> Also, is it possible to just build the SD image much like I do for
>>> other devices like the BeagleBoard, albeit with different contents
>>> in /boot? Sloshing around 4GB images is rather painful, plus it
>>> takes forever to DD it to the SD card.
>> I must be missing something - do you want the rootfs larger or don't
>> you? If
>> it's expanded it will take up 4GB minus the boot partition size so
>> you're into
>> a large dd again...
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Paul
>>
>
> I think what he means (or this is what I would like to see ;) ) is a
> boot.tar.gz and a rootfs.tar.gz which can then be extracted straight
> onto the partitions?
For the rootfs, you can just add IMAGE_FSTYPES += "tar.bz2" somewhere
suitable; I tend to do that for all my images, as it makes it easy to
examine the rootfs contents.
Tomas
Hence only a ~40mb boot write and ~50mb rootfs
> write rather than a 4GB dd slog.
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