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From: Ferenc Havasi <havasi@inf.u-szeged.hu>
To: "Ryan B. Lynch" <rlynch@bway.net>
Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: possible bug in "--pad" option for mkfs.jffs2?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:26:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43010875.4050708@inf.u-szeged.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4300BEE2.4020104@bway.net>

Hi Ryan,

>I run 'mkfs.jffs2' with the following command line:
>
> $ /usr/sbin/mkfs.jffs2 \
> >    -r /tmp/root \
> >    -o /tmp/image-20050815.160044.jffs2 \
> >    -e 0x10000 \
> >    -p 214171648
>
>The image size is NOT padded to 214,171,648 bytes, though--the size
>  
>

Do not use space between -p and its parameter. It will work.

It is getopt bug (or feature) which happens using optional parameter.

If we whould change it to required parameter, than both "-p X" and "-pX"
would be OK, but in this case "-p X" means "-p" without parameter and X
- if I'm right.

Ferenc

      parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-15 21:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-15 16:12 possible bug in "--pad" option for mkfs.jffs2? Ryan B. Lynch
2005-08-15 16:56 ` Ryan B. Lynch
2005-08-15 17:00   ` Artem B. Bityuckiy
2005-08-15 17:29     ` Ryan B. Lynch
2005-08-15 21:26 ` Ferenc Havasi [this message]

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