On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Paul Eggleton <paul.eggle...@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On Wednesday 25 January 2012 11:03:16 Joshua Immanuel wrote: >> On Tue, 2012-01-24 at 16:17 +0000, Paul Eggleton wrote: >> > I'd also say, what is in the classes is intended to work for everyone, >> > so if there's something in the core classes that is not working well >> > for your situation we'd really like to hear about it - hopefully we >> > can incorporate whatever changes you need and you can avoid having to >> > overlay the entire class. >> >> At present when we build an image, everything gets under one partition. >> For my use case I need two images (denoting different partitions) >> 1. rootfs image (mount point: '/', mounted as ro) >> 2. data partition image (mount point: say '/data' mounted as rw) >> >> While generating the image, I construct the /etc/fstab file manually by >> representing filesystems by their uuids (generated using uuidgen). So, >> to set this uuid in generated image I try to override the >> image_types.bbclass and using tune2fs I set the uuid for the generated >> images. > > AFAIK we don't already have the ability to do this, but it sounds very useful. > If it can be something that can be enabled and configured relatively easily > then it would be great to have in OE-Core as I can imagine others making use > of it.
That does sound nice. Actually, it'd also be nice to come up with a declarative way to express info about partitioning in general, which would ideally result in an automatic split up of the rootfs across those partitions when appropriate. Hmmm. -- Christopher Larson _______________________________________________ yocto mailing list yocto@yoctoproject.org https://lists.yoctoproject.org/listinfo/yocto