RE: Re: problem with build jffs2 filesystem

RE: Re: problem with build jffs2 filesystem

[fyaowen]

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From:David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To:fyaowen <fyaowen@sina.com>
Subject:Re: problem with build jffs2 filesystem 
Date:Sat, 30 Mar 2002 23:30:23 +0800
 >fyaowen@sina.com said:
 >>    dd if=jffs2.image of=/dev/mtd7
 >>    mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtd7 /mnt
 >> After I gave out this instruction, all partitions on Neponset were
 >> erased.  
 >
 >That mount command should have failed. You cannot mount the character 
 >device. 
ls -l /dev
brw-r--r--    1 root     root      31,   7 Jan 28 14:16 mtd7

I have no mtdblocks, only mtd* instead. The major number of mtd7
is 31. So mtd7 is a block device, isn't it?

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Re: Re: problem with build jffs2 filesystem

[Jörn Engel]

On Sun, 31 March 2002 10:34:58 +0800, fyaowen wrote:
> ls -l /dev
> brw-r--r--    1 root     root      31,   7 Jan 28 14:16 mtd7
> 
> I have no mtdblocks, only mtd* instead. The major number of mtd7
> is 31. So mtd7 is a block device, isn't it?

It is, although the name is confusing. Usually, mtd7 is a char device
(major 90, minor 14) and mtdblock7 is the name for your mtd7.

Jörn

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