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Subject: Re: 2.6 Kernel not mounting JFFS2 partition
From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind@infradead.org>
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Hi,

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 15:00 -0500, Glen Johnson wrote:
> 1. "eraseall /dev/mtd2" which ended with "Erased 2048 Kibyte @ 0 -- 100%
> complete."
At this point it is nice to make sure if the erase functionality works.
Try to read /dev/mtd2 and make sure it contains only 0xFFs.

> 8. mount -t jffs2 mtd2 /mnt/ Once again many error messages/info
> messages. Finally it died with these last lines:
> You cannot use older JFFS2 filesystems with newer kernels

Download newer JFFS2 utilities and use newer mkfs.jffs2. It will
probably solve your problems.

--=20
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Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
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