[Buildroot] [PATCH] fs/btrfs: remove destination file before generation

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at free.fr
Sat Aug 25 17:47:14 UTC 2018


btrfs will happily use an existing destination file if it
already exists, increasing its size if needed. Hoever, it
will never decrease the size, even if the requested size
is smaller than the existing file.

So, remove any previously existing destination file before
generating the new filesystem.

Note: the original submission by Robert did that, but as
this case was not obvious, the removal was dropped by a
refactoring when the patch was initially applied.

Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998 at free.fr>
Cc: Robert J. Heywood <robert.heywood at codethink.co.uk>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at bootlin.com>
---
 fs/btrfs/btrfs.mk | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/fs/btrfs/btrfs.mk b/fs/btrfs/btrfs.mk
index ad00153c26..94bc499084 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/btrfs.mk
+++ b/fs/btrfs/btrfs.mk
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ BTRFS_OPTS = \
 ROOTFS_BTRFS_DEPENDENCIES = host-btrfs-progs
 
 define ROOTFS_BTRFS_CMD
+	rm -f $(@)
 	$(HOST_DIR)/bin/mkfs.btrfs $(BTRFS_OPTS) $@
 endef
 
-- 
2.14.1



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