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How to increase disk size when building yocto

The default yocto image is about 1GB after bitbake core-image-minimal.

The free space is couple hundred MB.

How to assign or increase it?

Solution

  • Let's say you want to add 8G extra then you can set following in local.conf

    IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE_append = " + 8000000"

    Another way to do is to set IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR which will increase the size of image proportionally to the size of the content of image e.g.

     IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR = "1.5"

    will multiply the original size with 1.5 to create the final image.

    also read through documentation for details.