From: Hamish Moffatt <hamish@cloud.net.au>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Question about ubimkvol vs. mkfs.ubifs
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 10:23:43 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080407002343.GD31499@cloud.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF56D7FBB0.A3722ECD-ON88257423.008249AB-88257423.00833E0B@selinc.com>
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:53:37PM -0700, Bruce_Leonard@selinc.com wrote:
> Once I do all that I can read/write/copy/delete/etc files just fine on the
> NAND flash. So, like I said it appears to be working just fine. But
> everything I see on the mailing list seems to be saying I should be using
> mkfs.ubifs. But if everything works and I'm mounting the device as a
> UBIFS filesystem, what (if anything) is mkfs.ubifs going to do for me that
> I don't already have done?
mkfs.ubifs is for creating a ubifs image pre-populated with files eg
your root file system, similar to mkfs.jffs2, genext2fs, etc. You don't
need it to create a blank file system - in that case, just mount a blank
volume as you are doing now.
cheers
Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-07 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-06 23:53 Question about ubimkvol vs. mkfs.ubifs Bruce_Leonard
2008-04-07 0:23 ` Hamish Moffatt [this message]
2008-04-07 2:42 ` Bruce_Leonard
2008-04-07 7:27 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-04-07 7:37 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-04-07 20:07 ` Bruce_Leonard
2008-04-08 5:43 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-04-08 16:45 ` Bruce_Leonard
2008-04-08 16:51 ` Artem Bityutskiy
2008-04-08 16:54 ` Artem Bityutskiy
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