Bug 2525

Summary:	dosfstools limits dos filesystems to 2GB
Product:	[Build System, Metadata & Runtime] OE-Core	Reporter:	Seebs <seebs>
Component:	deployment	Assignee:	Richard Purdie <richard.purdie>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	Low	CC:	dvhart, eddy.lai.tw, meta.mr.watcher, meta.watcher
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	1.7
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Multiple
Whiteboard:
OS type for building Yocto:	---	Type of Regression:	---
Verified:		Documentation change:	Don't know

Description Seebs 2012-05-31 03:19:15 UTC

The CFLAGS passed in by Yocto override the -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in the Makefile, which causes dosfstools to end up only supporting 2GB filesystems.  Workaround is to pass that in via CFLAGS_append.

Spotted by mebrown in #yocto, who's on a crunch schedule and hasn't got time to file a formal report.

(The -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 is in OPTFLAGS, which is shoved into CFLAGS in the makefile.  I am not sure it should have been considered an optmitization flag to begin with, but...)

Comment 1 Nitin Kamble 2013-01-24 21:44:29 UTC

*** Bug 3779 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Eddy Lai 2013-01-28 13:35:57 UTC

is the workaround to put 
CFLAGS_append="-D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64"
in the conf/local.conf then build the image?
I have tried to use
IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "1048576"
to create a ~1.5GB image, but same failed to boot from USB flash disk.

Comment 3 Darren Hart 2013-01-28 17:28:51 UTC

I believe you would to add something along those lines to a bbappend for the dosfstools recipe, not to local.conf. You can verify by viewing the compile step logs for the package.

Comment 4 Darren Hart 2013-02-28 05:12:48 UTC

Eddy, have you had a chance to try the workaround?

Comment 5 Richard Purdie 2014-06-03 11:24:24 UTC

The recipe now contains this line, no feedback from the reporter for a couple of years so closing as obsolete, suspected resolved. Reopen if the are still issues.