linux-kernel - Re: how to change size of a partition in kernel

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Date:	Mon, 11 Nov 2013 17:11:54 +1100
From:	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
To:	Suki Buryani <sukiburyani@...oo.com>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to change size of a partition in kernel

On Sun, 10 Nov 2013 21:41:31 -0800 (PST) Suki Buryani <sukiburyani@...oo.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> can anyone tell me, how i can change size of these partitions?, aspecialy mtdblock3
> 
> 
> cat /proc/partitions 
> major minor  #blocks  name
> 
>   31     0       8192 mtdblock0
>   31     1        256 mtdblock1
>   31     2       2048 mtdblock2
>   31     3       5824 mtdblock3
>   31     4         64 mtdblock4
> 
> my device is running linux-2.6.16,any help would be appreciative

On my device this information is hard-coded in the board file in an array
which is passed to omap_nand_flash_init().

I think 'uboot' knows the sizes too so it would need to be told if I made any
changes.

NeilBrown

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