From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from dell-paw-3.cambridge.redhat.com ([195.224.55.237] helo=passion.cambridge.redhat.com) by pentafluge.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 166YlB-0001dd-00 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 14:53:57 +0000 From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <3BFBB870.5D435486@allot.com> References: <3BFBB870.5D435486@allot.com> To: Felix Radensky Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: Kernel partition Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:04:11 +0000 Message-ID: <10926.1006355051@redhat.com> 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: felix@allot.com said: > I'd like to create 2 partitions on my flash disk: kernel partition > (where kernel image resides) and normal ext2 partition. I was thinking > of using fdisk and creating an ext2 partition at some offset from the > start of the disk, thus reserving space for kernel partition. Will > this work, or some other technique is required ? No. You can't just put an ext2 filesystem on flash - at least not safely. You need either a translation layer to pretend to be a normal block device, or more usefully a real filesystem designed for use on flash, like JFFS2. -- dwmw2