[yocto] [PATCH 1/7] dev-manual: describe creation of empty partition

Ed Bartosh ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com
Tue Jan 5 03:10:50 PST 2016


Copied an explanations of empty partition creation from
'wic help kickstart' output.

[YOCTO #8821]

Signed-off-by: Ed Bartosh <ed.bartosh at linux.intel.com>
---
 documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 5694776..5404b95 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -4561,7 +4561,12 @@
                             Exactly what those contents and
 			                filesystem type end up being are dependent
 			                on the given plugin implementation.
-                            </para></listitem>
+                            </para>
+                            <para>If <filename>--source</filename>option is not used, the <filename>wic</filename>
+                            command will create empty partition. <filename>--size</filename> parameter has
+                            to be used to specify size of empty partition.
+                            </para>
+                            </listitem>
                         <listitem><para><emphasis><filename>--ondisk</filename> or <filename>--ondrive</filename>:</emphasis>
                             Forces the partition to be created on a particular
                             disk.</para></listitem>
-- 
2.1.4




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