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Oct 16 10:24:08 <Guest85> Hi?
Oct 16 10:50:54 <zmatt> what a great question
Oct 16 15:16:37 <hays> what kind of tool can create a 25M recovery partition
Oct 16 15:19:48 <zmatt> what do you mean by recovery partition? for what?
Oct 16 15:25:12 <hays> like something that will fit into RAM and give you a decent userspace
Oct 16 15:25:53 <hays> i have an example...  its a whole rootfs that is 25M but i don't know how they did it
Oct 16 15:26:06 <zmatt> busybox
Oct 16 15:26:23 <hays> ooh yeah looks like a lot of it is busybox
Oct 16 15:27:01 <zmatt> like, literally kernel + busybox is all you need
Oct 16 15:27:16 <zmatt> + bootloader if applicable
Oct 16 15:39:44 <hays> yeah.. i feel like ive done this before ages ago with LFS but its been while
Oct 16 15:42:54 <zmatt> just either build busybox yourself or unpack the contents of the debian busybox-static package, and either create a symlink to the appropriate place (iirc /init for initramfs or /sbin/init for a normal rootfs) or specify its path using an init= kernel parameter
Oct 16 15:43:09 <zmatt> *a symlink to a shell
Oct 16 15:43:41 <zmatt> or if busybox it built with an init, you can use that
Oct 16 15:43:48 <zmatt> if it makes sense in your application
Oct 16 16:17:11 <hays> yeah... its going to take me some thinking to see what i need. i've got this device that im seeing if I can make the rootfs btrfs
Oct 16 16:17:49 <hays> so it would be nice for the recovery system to have some btrfs tools
Oct 16 16:18:12 <zmatt> I mean, you can add any tools you need/want obviously
Oct 16 16:18:14 <hays> im going to see what buildroot produces as a start
Oct 16 16:18:16 <zmatt> season to taste
Oct 16 16:18:55 <hays> i have a feeling buildroot will yield something too big
Oct 16 16:18:57 <hays> but well see
Oct 16 18:31:04 <hays> buildroot with everything i could possibly want was 43M.. not too bad. i bet I can get it down
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