[ELDK] genext2fs problem of not allocating ramdisk image

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear "J.Hwan.Kim",

In message <4AC331C7.1080108 at gmail.com> you wrote:
> The DULG indicates how to use genext2fs as follows :
> 
> 
> $ ROOTFS_DIR=rootfs                 # directory with root file system content
> $ ROOTFS_SIZE=3700                  # size of file system image
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> When I do command "genext2fs -U -d rootfs -D rootfs_device.tab -b 3700 -m 10 -i 380 ramdisk.img",
> it returns error message "genext2fs: couldn't allocate a block (no free space)"

This means that the generated file system is too small to hold all the
data you want to put in.

> How can I solve the problem?

Increase the size of the file system, i. e. the value passed for the
"-b" option (3700 in your example above).

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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