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Subject: Re: UBIFS fails & crashes on SheevaPlug
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erno@gulp.u--3.com wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I installed Debian on my SheevaPlug following instructions at 
> <http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/sheevaplug/> and everything 
> seemed to work fine until...
> 
> I wanted to try UBIFS on the built-in flash and followed
> the instructions for formatting the internal flash
> at http://www.plugcomputer.org/plugwiki/index.php/Enabling_UBIFS
> except I made an empty image (no -r parameter for mkfs.ubifs).

Isn't the -r parameter mandatory.  For an empty image, use an empty
directory for the -r parameter.