[opensuse-arm] Raspberry Pi partition layout
Hi All, New to OpenSuse + ARM. I am experimenting with Rapsberry Pis. I have just downloaded the 20130407 raspberry pi image to take 12.3 for a spin. Why do we place the root partition sandwiched between the boot partition and the swap partition? Not sure of the RPi boot loader, but assuming the loader is hard coded to boot from the second partition - would we not be better to use a swap file and just having a rootfs as the only partition? This way the partition can be resized to fill the rest of a larger SD card. Thanks for everyone's efforts so far. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
On 28.04.2013, at 14:09, Simon Smith wrote:
Hi All,
New to OpenSuse + ARM. I am experimenting with Rapsberry Pis.
I have just downloaded the 20130407 raspberry pi image to take 12.3 for a spin.
Why do we place the root partition sandwiched between the boot partition and the swap partition?
Not sure of the RPi boot loader, but assuming the loader is hard coded to boot from the second partition - would we not be better to use a swap file and just having a rootfs as the only partition? This way the partition can be resized to fill the rest of a larger SD card.
That's what we usually do when we have kiwi built images. The Raspberry Pi one however is hand-tailored, so that's probably why you see what you see :). Alex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-arm+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-arm+owner@opensuse.org
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