I thought I would put one more question out there: Does anyone know
anything about: meta-ti/classes/sdcard_image.bbclass ???
I noticed in there that it has the capability of partitioning/formatting
the sdcard if needed (wanted?). In the case of ext4 it also sets
options that I was not setting when I did my own formatting
(specifically: extents, uninit_bg, and dir_index). Is it important that
I use this script (and if so, how do I use it)?
Either way, it seems the most reliable option for me is using ext3 as
the rootfstype. Using ext4 is just too flaky.
Thanks.
On 12/10/2012 8:03 PM, Alan DuBoff wrote:
On Mon, 10 Dec 2012, Peter Kurrasch wrote:
I came across a similar problem--I think the error message I saw was
'could not create session' or some such thing--when trying to login
as root. I think the only way I could get past that was to reformat
the rootfs partition--but I don't know if it was ext3 or ext4.
Yes, that's the problem I had also.
Maybe someone else knows what the root cause of that is. I'm all eyes!
It would appear that the uboot param and the fs format must agree or
things seem to get messed up. It would get so bad at times that I
would see console messages that the root partition was getting
remounted as read-only and a e2fsck was required.
I did notice after an upgrade that the boot partition needs to be
updated, so they do need to be in sync.
BTW--anyone know how to check if a given partition is truly formatted
as ext3 or ext4? I poked around in the /proc tree but it seemed that
any info there simply mirrored what the uboot param was set to.
That I am not sure of, and it could be that they are the same, as the
journaling is what is different AFAIK.
I would like to know that also.
I normally just rm the directories off the rootfs partition and leave
the lost+found directory, and untar the rootfs partition on there.
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