From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
To: Grant Erickson <gerickson@nuovations.com>
Cc: "linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org" <linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Creating an Empty JFFS2 File System
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 12:37:01 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080307123701.55c3ebf8@weaponx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C3F6C181.DD74%gerickson@nuovations.com>
On Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:55:13 -0800
Grant Erickson <gerickson@nuovations.com> wrote:
> Is creating an empty JFFS2 file system supported or is this a deprecated
> capability? The following steps seem to be incorrect or failing:
>
> # flash_eraseall -q -j /dev/mtd9
> # mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock9 /mnt
> Cowardly refusing to erase blocks on filesystem with no valid JFFS2
> nodes
> empty_blocks 0, bad_blocks 0, c->nr_blocks 3840
>
> Or, is the only way to accomplish this to create a NULL JFFS2 image with
> mkfs.jffs2 and then nandwrite it?
Just erase it completely without the -j option and mount. JFFS2 will go
through and erase them all again and add the cleanmarkers itself.
josh
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-07 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-07 17:55 Creating an Empty JFFS2 File System Grant Erickson
2008-03-07 18:37 ` Josh Boyer [this message]
2008-03-07 20:39 ` Grant Erickson
2008-08-23 15:34 ` Grant Erickson
2008-03-07 18:50 ` Markus Franke
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