[FE training-materials-updates] Instruct to create an 8 MB partition on MMC

Michael Opdenacker michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com
Wed Jan 23 15:59:07 CET 2013


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commit 658485a88c79ce42286400fbef929942522a347c
Author: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>
Date:   Wed Jan 23 15:57:51 2013 +0100

    Instruct to create an 8 MB partition on MMC
    
    ... instead of a 1 MB one. With the 8 GB MMC disks
    that we use, we can't create 1 MB partitions any more.
    
    Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker at free-electrons.com>


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658485a88c79ce42286400fbef929942522a347c
 .../sysdev-block-filesystems.tex                   |   11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/labs/sysdev-block-filesystems/sysdev-block-filesystems.tex b/labs/sysdev-block-filesystems/sysdev-block-filesystems.tex
index 6982ff1..81c9575 100644
--- a/labs/sysdev-block-filesystems/sysdev-block-filesystems.tex
+++ b/labs/sysdev-block-filesystems/sysdev-block-filesystems.tex
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ Recompile it with support for SquashFS and ext3.
 
 Boot your board with this new kernel and on the NFS filesystem you
 used in this previous lab.\footnote{If you didn't do or complete the
-  tinysystem lab, you can use the data/rootfs directory instead.}
+  tinysystem lab, you can use the \code{data/rootfs} directory instead.}
 
 \section{Add partitions to the MMC card}
 
@@ -38,9 +38,14 @@ bootloaders lab):
 
 \begin{itemize}
 
-\item One partition, of at least 1 MB, that will be used for the root
+\item One partition, 8 MB big
+  \footnote{For the needs of our system, the partition could even be
+  much smaller, and 1 MB would be enough. However, with the 8 GB SD
+  cards that we use in our labs, 8 MB will be the smallest partition
+  that \code{cfdisk} will allow you to create.},
+  that will be used for the root
   filesystem. Due to the geometry of the device, the partition might
-  be larger than 1 MB, but it does not matter. Keep the \code{Linux}
+  be larger than 8 MB, but it does not matter. Keep the \code{Linux}
   type for the partition.
 
 \item One partition, that fills the rest of the MMC card, that will be



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