build: Add TARGET_ROOTFS_RESERVED_PCT option to reduce wasted space
authorGabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:37:15 +0000 (17:37 +0000)
committerGabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:37:15 +0000 (17:37 +0000)
commit5df8e544613d2bf42685ea9f8ca0382b93f72270
treecaf9d6edbfa621a282bf9bb2bc04d8a7dd4294b9
parent3ba66cbdeb4a1c0397bf52440f73733d701f9982
build: Add TARGET_ROOTFS_RESERVED_PCT option to reduce wasted space

The genext2fs tool will 'reserve' 5% of the image size by default,
apparently by creating a huge lost+found directory. In fact it seemed to
be much more than 5% in practice — I saw an image with 8MiB used, and
recovered about 2MiB of it by deleting the 'empty' lost+found directory:

/dev/loop0         48377  8482     37438  19% /mnt/spare
 # rmdir lost+found/
/dev/loop0         48377  6014     39906  14% /mnt/spare

This makes it configurable, but leaves it at the genext2fs default
of 5% for now. It should probably be changed to default to zero, but
that can be a separate patch.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Gabor Juhos <juhosg@openwrt.org>
SVN-Revision: 34408
Config.in
include/image.mk