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(snip) > It probably makes more sense in > the "syslinux" installer rather than "extlinux", since the former > already operates on an unmounted filesystem. > In other words, the Linux-based "syslinux" installers could / would support ext2/3/4 too. In particular, the (./bios/mtools/) "syslinux" command does not need special permissions

>Yes, if you are creating larger files. By default e2fsck assumes the average >file size is 8kB and allocates a corresponding number of inodes there. If, >for example, you are storing lots of larger files there (digital photos, MP3s, >etc) that are in the MB range you can use "-t largefile" or "-t largefile4" >to specify an average file size of 1MB or 4MB

On 11/20/2014 10:21 PM, Robert Yang wrote: > > which can copy files into test.img without mount it, for example: > $ mke2fs -t ext3 -d <rootfs_dir> -F test.img > > I'd like to make extlinux can work without mount the filesystem (use > libext2fs), is it possible for extlinux, please ? And is such a patch > acceptable, please ? (Add a "-d/--device

Hello syslinux, I'm a newbie to extlinux, and I'm a developer from yocto project (an embedded linux project). The device or filesystem must be mounted before we can install the bootsector to the device if I understand correctly, for example: $ mount /dev/sdcX /tmp/mnt $ extlinux -i /tmp/mnt Usually, the mount command requires the root privilage, we may not have the root privilage when