On Mon, 2014-08-11 at 09:03 +0100, Ryan Harkin wrote:
> 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,

Actually, it is :-) It's one of the QA tests done on each release and
one of the features that we patch AOSP source to get working.

-- 
Tixy


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