Hi,

If you want you can change the partition scheme by editing the partition table 
in arch/arm/mach-davinci/board-dm355-evm.c

Be warned - do not change the 'bootloader', 'params' or 'kernel' partitions. 
You probably could make the 'kernel' partition a bit smaller but at 4M you can 
fit a kernel + initial ramdisk or perhaps 2 kernels depending on what you want 
to do.

Also note that the larger partitions take longer to mount and 'first access' 
times also increase (especially JFFS2) so it isn't always good to have a single 
large partition for the root filesystem.

Regards

Phil Q


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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maupin, Chase
Sent: 30 July 2008 13:24
To: Jon Povey; Kumar Bala
Cc: TI DaVinci Mailing List
Subject: RE: Size of NAND flash on DM355 EVM

You can also look at /proc/partitions or /proc/mtd to find out more about the 
NAND paritions on your system.

Sincerely,
Chase Maupin
Software Applications
Catalog DSP Products
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
phone: (281) 274-3285

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf
> Of Jon Povey
> Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 4:02 AM
> To: Kumar Bala
> Cc: TI DaVinci Mailing List
> Subject: RE: Size of NAND flash on DM355 EVM
> 
> > Subject: Size of NAND flash on DM355 EVM
> >
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to transfer my NFS file system onto the NAND flash. My 
> > filesystem is about 1.1 GB. But when I mount the NAND flash and 
> > check the disk size using "df -h ." it displays the capacity as 
> > 512MB. But the
> > DM355 EVM user guide claims the default NAND flash size to be 2 GB.
> >
> > Are these split into different partitions ? I cant find any 
> > information using /sbin/fdisk /dev/mtd3 and use p to print the 
> > partitions.
> 
> Yes, the initial root FS is mtd3 which is 512MB.
> 
> There is also an mtd4 which is 2GB - (512M + 8M) or a bit under 1.5GB.
> 
> You can mount this, put your filesystem there and change your u-boot 
> environment to boot off mtd4 as the root.
> 
> Have a look at your console messages when the kernel boots, it lists 
> which partitions are configured.
> 
> Fdisk won't help you as that is for reading DOS hard-disk style 
> partition tables (not present on NAND)
> 
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