03:46 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> I think when you define BOOTSIZE=

10:18 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> Hm https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_Build-Options/ says:

10:18 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> > BOOTSIZE ( integer 96 ): set size (in megabytes) for separate /boot filesystem. Used if ROOTFS_TYPE set to non-ext4

10:18 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> But the rootfs is ext4

10:19 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> I.. guess I could use xfs as the rootfs just to get it to produce a separate /boot partition?

10:35 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> don't know. you will need to experiment / looking into the code

11:21 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> adding BOOTFS_TYPE to the board config seems to work. Can I provide my own board config via userpatches?

11:25 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> It seems like yeah, putting a board in userpatches/config/boards works. Nice!

12:09 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <alexl83> I ended up using `BOOTPART_REQUIRED="yes"` in my config files in userpatches, so boot partition gets standard size 256MiB (a bit more space so I cans tore multiple kernels/intirds)

12:11 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> Which config files is that? Can you put it in any .config file in `userpatches/config`, such as lib.config?

12:13 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> sorry lib.config doesn't go in userpatches/config does it. Question about whether putting it in lib.config would work remains tho

12:17 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <alexl83> you create you own, `config-XXXX.conf`, you collect there all the build variables you need and you call specif config using `./compile.sh XXXX` eventually adding more vars or overriding already defined ones on command line

12:18 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <alexl83> for some examples you can check here https://github.com/alexl83/os I keep my userpatches there

12:19 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> do you know if it works in lib.conf as well?

12:19 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> I have a setup where different configs are handled by swapping out userconfig directories right now

12:23 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <alexl83> i might be wrong as I never used lib.conf, but I think lib.conf it's not supported anymore

12:24 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> Hm it's listed in https://docs.armbian.com/Developer-Guide_User-Configurations/#user-provided-configuration

12:35 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <alexl83> I might be wrong, it's been a long time since I checked documentation 🙂

13:52 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> Is it possible to get armbian to use actual proper fat32, not vfat?

13:59 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <c0rnelius77> what does `fdisk -l` tell you it is?

14:00 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <c0rnelius77> once flashed and booted of course.

14:01 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> https://github.com/armbian/build/blob/main/lib/functions/image/partitioning.sh#L74C1-L74C16 this line is making it so that BOOTFS_TYPE=fat will run mkfs.vfat rather than mkfs.fat when creating the filesystem

14:03 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> I don't know if that matters or not.. this whole thing is a bit confusing, mkfs.vfat and mkfs.msdos are just symlinks to mkfs.fat

14:04 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Werner> Probably because it is sufficient for >95% of cases 🤷‍♂️

14:08 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> I thought the fat vs vfat distinction was the reason why macOS refused to mount the boot partition, but it turns out that's not it, macOS is able to mount it >_>

14:09 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Werner> Another case of insufficient documentation I'd say

14:10 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> the context is: I'm making an image which acts as an installer, I want you to be able to set some settings in a text file in that installer, so I'm trying to get the installer SD card to present itself as a partition to Windows and macOS

14:11 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> I figured using the fat32 /boot partition made sense, but maybe that was too optimistic...

14:12 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> I wonder how angry Linux would be at running from a fat32 rootfs

14:22 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <Werner> My guess is it runs just fine. Maybe compile fat support directly into the kernel rather than having it as a module.

14:28 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> armbian certainly didn't like ROOTFS_TYPE=fat hehe

19:24 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <killerpandabur> For a quick sanity check, is anyone else able to download armbian builds for an orange pi 5? Every download link I try just says the URL does not exist

19:37 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <igorpec> mirrors sync in progress, try direct https://fi.mirror.armbian.de/dl/orangepi5/archive/

22:29 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> I will never understand why atomic mirror syncs aren't a thing yet, is it *that* much more expensive to have at least twice the storage necessary for all the packages?

22:32 <DC-IRC> [Discord] <xmort> I guess I get it for a community driven project like Armbian but Canonical have long outages due to mirror syncs too, I don't get that