Quote:
Originally Posted by bran
Hi All,
I've got the emulator running.
I'm stunned that the the default block device is so small! Its only 256 MiB and already 45% full is it possible to somehow create a larger virtual SD card and use that instead? If that is possible, how do I do that?
What I also noticed is that the SD card that is mounted on first boot in the emulator is an ext2 file system. Does that mean that native linux filesystems are availble for the SD card on a physical DR800 device? Obviously the vfat filesystem is the lowest common denominator, and that it is the one, most computer users are familiar with. So, using vfat makes sense from a consumer's point of view. For me using ext or ext3 or jfs makes more sense. Is this possible?
Regards Bran
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qemu doesn't emulate the SD card really, it's using root partition:
Code:
root@qemuarm:~# df /media/mmcblk0p1/
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 275415 211130 62236 77% /
If you look at /etc/fstab file you could see that SD card is mounted with auto parameter as file system type. That means that you should use any file system supported by the kernel:
Code:
root@qemuarm:~# cat /etc/fstab
# stock fstab - you probably want to override this with a machine specific one
rootfs / auto defaults 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
tmpfs /var tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /media/ram tmpfs defaults 0 0
# uncomment this if your device has a SD/MMC/Transflash slot
#/dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/card auto defaults,sync,noauto 0 0
... and which are the supported file systems:
Code:
root@qemuarm:~# cat /proc/filesystems
nodev sysfs
nodev rootfs
nodev bdev
nodev proc
nodev sockfs
nodev pipefs
nodev anon_inodefs
nodev futexfs
nodev tmpfs
nodev inotifyfs
nodev devpts
ext2
cramfs
nodev ramfs
vfat
nodev nfs
nodev nfsd
nodev smbfs
nodev jffs2
nodev rpc_pipefs
Ok, I haven't tested it but ext2 should work.
Hope it helps,
Iņigo