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On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 12:21 +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> I tried to explain everything, but ofc forgot about this.
> 
> The answer is:
> vol_flags=autoresize
> I create much bigger MTD partition, because I want UBI to resize my
> partition (to let user use whole flash space).

Yes, that's the feature you may find convenient, but you still need to
get rid of the "rubbish". Otherwise the UBI driver won't even reach the
code where it handles the 'autoresize' flag.