From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from post2.inre.asu.edu ([129.219.110.73]) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 16ViOS-00036J-00 for ; Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:14:28 +0000 Received: from conversion.post2.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1 #40111) id <0GQQ006016HUAP@asu.edu> for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:25:06 -0700 (MST) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:25:26 -0700 From: Russ Dill Subject: Re: Problems with mounting a JFFS2 file system image In-reply-to: To: Navin Boppuri Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Message-id: <1012350327.3308.2.camel@russ> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: Sender: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: linux-mtd-admin@lists.infradead.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 17:09, Navin Boppuri wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been able to succesfully partition my flash and mount a jffs2 file system on the same. I am able to copy, create, read and write files onto my new file system. > > Now, I wanted to create a file system on my host machine using the mkfs.jffs2 utility and mount the file system onto my flash partition on my embedded device. But I havent been successful in doing so. I followed the JFFS2 README and this is what I did: > > mkfs.jffs -d tmp_fs -o jffs2.image ( tmp_fs is a directory with all my files in it) us mkfs.jffs2, it may also be neccessary to supply your erase block size