From: Justin Waters <justin.waters@timesys.com>
To: Mark Ryden <markryde@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Creating an ext3 partition on an mtd device
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:26:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1251321997.10982.101.camel@jjw-linux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dac45060908261244wbfc744apec0d5195a0f1dbcf@mail.gmail.com>
Mark,
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 15:44 -0400, Mark Ryden wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to create an ext2 partition on an mtd device.
No, you don't.
See: http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/general.html#L_ext2_mtd
and
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/ubifs.html#L_raw_vs_ftl
> I tried to create a partition with fdisk /dev/mtdblock2
> The device is /dev/mtdblock2p1
> but: mkfs.ext3 /dev/mtdblock2p1 fails
>
> What should I do ? Is it right in this case to use fdisk at all ?
Unless you have some hard requirement for EXT2, you are much better off
using a flash file system, like ubifs or jffs2. Check out
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org for more info.
> Regards,
> Mark Ryden
- Justin Waters
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-26 21:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-26 19:44 Creating an ext3 partition on an mtd device Mark Ryden
2009-08-26 21:26 ` Justin Waters [this message]
2009-08-27 5:59 ` Mark Ryden
2009-08-27 6:29 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-08-27 8:24 ` Jamie Lokier
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