[Buildroot] tmpfs puzzle

Charles Krinke charles.krinke at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 18:49:21 UTC 2011


I am downloading and compiling the daily snapshot, thank you Michael.

One parting question.

I tried adding the incantations to /etc/fstab and /etc/inittab and on
re-booting,  when trying to mount tmpfs, I get "Invalid argument". I
am using busybox 1.18.3 and am now suspecting that something else has
changed, perhaps in busybox (or the linux kernel) with respect to the
mount command.

I am working with linux-2.6.35.12, so have advanced the linux kernel
several revisions.

I wonder if there is any comment on mount failing with "Invalid
command" with respect to either busybox or linux-2.6.35.12 while I do
wait for the compile on the daily snapshot with optimism that I will
not see this error when it is done.


On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Michael S. Zick <minimod at morethan.org> wrote:
> On Mon July 11 2011, Charles Krinke wrote:
>> I am puzzled why "tmpfs" is not mounting in my buildroot glibc root
>> filesystem and would appreciate a "clue" or at least a sarcastic
>> "RTFM" if one could tell me *which* "FM" and what its URL might be.
>>
>
> http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/buildroot/2011-June/043752.html
>
> Mike
>>
>> Here is my /etc/fstab, a cat or /proc/mounts and the result of "mount
>> -a", which fails on tmpfs.
>>
>> # cat /etc/fstab
>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>> #
>> # <file system> <mount pt>     <type>   <options>         <dump> <pass>
>> /dev/root       /              ext2     rw,noauto         0      1
>> proc            /proc          proc     defaults          0      0
>> devpts          /dev/pts       devpts   defaults,gid=5,mode=620   0      0
>> tmpfs           /tmp           tmpfs    defaults          0      0
>> sysfs           /sys           sysfs    defaults          0      0
>> #
>> #
>> # cat /proc/mounts
>> rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0
>> /dev/root / jffs2 rw,relatime 0 0
>> devtmpfs /dev devtmpfs rw,relatime,mode=0755 0 0
>> proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
>> devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,relatime,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>> sysfs /sys sysfs rw,relatime 0 0
>> #
>> #
>> #
>> # mount -a
>> mount: mounting tmpfs on /tmp failed: Invalid argument
>> #
>>
>>
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Charles Krinke



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