[uClibc] genext2fs and loss of keyboard

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Fri Sep 17 13:55:06 UTC 2004


On Thu Sep 16, 2004 at 08:19:59PM -0700, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> Frank Kujawski wrote:
> 
> >	buildroot/build_i386/root/ is about 30M
> 
> genext2fs is not capable of building a filesystem larger than about 8MB 
> (see the list archives).
> 
> You will have to convert the root directory into a filesystem using some 
> other means.

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.

 -Erik

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