[yocto] Creating a EXT4 rootfs instead of EXT3: How?

Nicolas Dechesne nicolas.dechesne at linaro.org
Tue Jan 7 05:24:28 PST 2014


On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:19 PM, Nick D'Ademo <nickdademo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can't seem to get the build process to create a EXT4 filesystem - I've
> tried the following:
>

in general, more details about the actual error you get would be more
helpful.


>
> 1. Tried adding ROOTFSTYPE ?= "*ext4*" to the machine .conf file
>

the variable name is IMAGE_FSTYPES, not ROOTFSTYPES.


> 2. Ensured EXT4 is enabled in the Linux kernel (using menuconfig)
>

this would not impact the image generation, only at runtime when mounting
the rootfs


>
> This is a build for the Intel NUC hardware.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how to do this?
>
>
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