[yocto] SOLVED: How to get mkfs.ext4 in rootfs package

[Ben Warren]

Sorry for the spam.  Still learning how this works…

Turns out I needed 'e2fsprogs-mke2fs'

regards,
Ben

On Jun 11, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Ben Warren <Ben.Warren at spidercloud.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get the 'mkfs.ext4' binary from e2fsprogs into my image, in particular the '.ext3' rootfs image, and am obviously missing something fundamental.
> I'm using a custom image based on (copy/pasted from) 'kvm_image_minimal', and have added 'e2fsprogs' to the IMAGE_INSTALL string in the image descriptor file.
> 
> I see that the library is compiling and the binary is in tmp/sysroots:
> 
> ben at ubuntu-scw:/opt/scw-appscard-build$ ls tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/sbin/mkfs.*
> tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/sbin/mkfs.ext2  tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/sbin/mkfs.ext4     tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/sbin/mkfs.minix
> tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/sbin/mkfs.ext3  tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/sbin/mkfs.ext4dev
> 
> but it's not making it to the rootfs images.
> 
> I've tried to read the documentation but still am not quite sure about what defines the contents of the rootfs images.
> 
> thanks,
> Ben
> 
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