The patch was proposed last month by Kenneth Miller [1]. It enables extroot on x86_64-based devices. I confirm that the patch does what it claims. The issue with extroot on x86_64 devices is described in FS#2231 [2].
Any possibility to see this patch in the trunk any time soon? With this patch, one can use extroot to claim the remaining space on /dev/sda and store data on it. Sysupgrade of a x86_64 system remains a tricky business however. For sysupgrade, I am currently using dd to copy OpenWrt boot partition and squashfs partitions onto the target drive and then using dd to copy the MBR bootstrap only, without the partition table: "dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sda bs=446 count=1". This procedure retains the partition layout on the target drive. [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2019-April/016654.html [2] https://bugs.openwrt.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=2231 _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
