From: Florian Schirmer <jolt@tuxbox.org>
To: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Cc: Shawn Jin <shawnxtech@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: JFFS2: No space left on a blank mtd device?
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 08:38:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200402130838.06005.jolt@tuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040212195532.38851.qmail@web20728.mail.yahoo.com>
Hi,
> Is it mandatory to make a 'blank' JFFS2 filesystem image even for a blank
> mtd device?
jffs2 will refuse to mount unless at least one jffs2 was found on the device.
Thats the reason why you can't mount an empty device.
Just use eraseall -j <mtddevice>
It will create a dummy inode so you can mount the device.
Regards,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-13 7:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-12 19:55 JFFS2: No space left on a blank mtd device? Shawn Jin
2004-02-13 7:38 ` Florian Schirmer [this message]
2004-02-16 12:06 ` Jörn Engel
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