Hi Pierre! Thanks for the review! On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM Pierre-loup GOSSE via lists.openembedded.org <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Adam, > > Thanks for your contribution to the plugin. > > > There are many use cases where a user may need a blank partition of a given > size and format with no extra files added. Such as an empty data partition. > > > A blank partition can already be created without the extra-partition > plugin. > > Personally, I use the following example line in my WKS file: > > part --fstype=ext4 --label data --fixed-size 500M > > This command creates a blank 500MB partition with an ext4 filesystem. > > In my opinion, the extra plugin should always requires files, similar to > the bootimg partition plugin (on which the extra partition plugin is based). > > I'm not seeing the problem with making this optional. A bootimg partition requires certain files to be present for a system to boot. An extra partition doesn't. Adam > Pierre-Loup, > > > > >
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