On 8 August 2014 16:38, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) <t...@linaro.org> wrote: > On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 16:08 +0100, Varun Sarwal wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > >> But basically, if you want bigger partitions, I would just say use > linaro-android-media-create (l-a-m-c), and if you specifically want a raw > disk image to test, use l-a-m-c to create one (using the --image-file > --image-size options instead of '--mmc /dev/sdX'). > > > > So I used this command to create bigger partitions: > > > > linaro-android-media-create --image-file /dev/sdb --image-size 6G --dev > vexpress --boot boot.tar.bz2 --system system.tar.bz2 --userdata > userdata.tar.bz2 (see attached image) > > > > However, the USB flash drive continues to have partitions as observed > before (attached image) , and Android can see only 488 MB of internal > memory. > > I think we may have been talking about different things. > > I guess by 'internal memory' means free space on the 'userdata' > partition. > > Basil was saying that the prebuilt image gave him 14GB unallocated > space, and using l-a-m-c with the three tarballs used all the disk which > is what he wanted, and asked for the prebuilt images to be the same. > > However, the extra disk space get's allocated to the last 'sdcard' > partition and doesn't change the sizes of the other partitions. Those > are hardcoded in l-a-m-c I believe. >
I believe that to be correct too. And further to that, I believe the sdcard partition isn't mounted, so no matter what size it is, the user would have to mount it manually to be able to use it. > > -- > Tixy > > >
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