How to add new partition on emmc in imx6dl

[Aravinthkumar]

Hi Team,

We are using iMX6dl sabresd board with Yocto L5.15. We want to add one more partition on emmc, can you please help how to add one more partition. For flashing we are using UUU tool

Regards,

Aravinth

[Sanket_Parekh]

Hi @Aravinthkumar 

I hope you are doing well

One can use the fdisk tool to make partitions in SD/EMMC. Please refer to section 4.3.3 Partitioning the SD/MMC card from the i.MX Linux User's Guide.

Thanks & Regards,

Sanket Parekh

[Aravinthkumar]

Hi @Sanket_Parekh ,

We don't want to do it manually. How to add this to be part of yocto.

Regards,

Aravinth

[Sanket_Parekh]

Hi @Aravinthkumar,

I hope you are doing well

One can make a partition in emmc by the following method using yocto:

One can modify the below file and create a partition in the final 'wic' image.

sources/meta-freescale/wic/imx-imx-boot-bootpart.wks.in

The size for the partition can be set using the --size parameter, specified in MB.

Other parameters like filesystem and labels can also be set here.

i.e part /boot --source bootimg-partition --ondisk mmcblk --fstype=vfat --label boot --active --align 8192 --size 64

here, --size 64 refers to the size of the partition and

--fstype=vfat refers to the type of partition.

--label boot suggests the label of partition.

Thanks & Regards,
Sanket Parekh