Hi JH,

The image root file system size is based on the actual content of the root file system. Besides ROOTFS_SIZE there are other variables that control how the root file system is sized:

IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE: Defines the size in kilobytes of the created root filesystem image. The
build system uses this value as a request or recommendation. The final root filesystem
image size may be larger depending on the actual space required. The default value is
65536.

IMAGE_ROOTFS_ALIGNMENT: Defines the alignment of the root filesystem image in
kilobytes. If the final size of the root filesystem image is not a multiple of this value, it is
rounded up to the nearest multiple of it. The default value is 1.

IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE: Adds extra free space to the root filesystem image. The
variable specifies the value in kilobytes. For example, to add an additional 4 GB of space, set
the variable to IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE = "4194304". The default value is 0.

IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR: This variable specifies a multiplicator for the root filesystem
image. The factor is applied after the actual space required by the root filesystem has been
determined. The default value is 1.3.

Here is some pseudo code on how these variables are used to determine the final root file system size:

_get_rootfs_size():
    ROOTFS_SIZE =`du -ks IMAGE_ROOTFS`
    BASE_SIZE = ROOTFS_SIZE * IMAGE_OVERHEAD_FACTOR

    if (BASE_SIZE < IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE):
        IMG_SIZE = IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE + IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE
    else:
        IMG_SIZE = BASE_SIZE + IMAGE_ROOTFS_EXTRA_SPACE

    IMG_SIZE = IMG_SIZE + IMAGE_ROOTFS_ALIGNMENT – 1
    IMG_SIZE = IMG_SIZE % IMAGE_ROOTFS_ALIGNMENT

    return IMG_SIZE

:rjs

Hi,

Does the Yocto rootfs image size is based on real contents included in
the image-rootfs.tar.gz?

When I build the image with very large size of applications and
libraries such as boost, I have my image-rootfs.tr.gz about 44 MB,
then I removed all large size of applications and libraries, I changed
IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE to a small size IMAGE_ROOTFS_SIZE = 20000, I thought
the image-rootfs.tar.gz should be reduced to a small size, but it is
still 43 MB I don't believe it is that big, which variable I should
use to reduce the image size?

Thank you.

Kind regards,

- jh

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