| Warning! |
| ======== |
| |
| This directory does *not* contain the root filesystem that you can use |
| on your embedded system. Since Buildroot does not run as root, it |
| cannot create device files and set the permissions and ownership of |
| files correctly in this directory to make it usable as a root |
| filesystem. |
| |
| For that reason, do *not* use the contents of this directory to mount |
| your root filesystem over NFS or copy the contents of this directory |
| to a SD card or USB key, thinking it will work as the root filesystem |
| for your embedded system. It will simply *not* work. |
| |
| Instead, if you need a usable root filesystem, please select one of |
| the filesystem image formats available in the Buildroot configuration |
| interface (make menuconfig or others) in the "Filesystem images" |
| sub-menu. If you want to get a filesystem image that you can easily |
| extract to your SD card or to some directory exposed through NFS, |
| please use the "tar the root filesystem" option. It will generate a |
| images/rootfs.tar image in your Buildroot output directory, which you |
| can extract as root: |
| |
| sudo tar -C /destination/of/extraction -xf images/rootfs.tar |
| |
| Those image files are created using the contents of the target/ |
| directory, but there is a post-processing step to create device files |
| and set ownership/permissions properly even if Buildroot does not run |
| as root. |
