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Hi,

Ricard Wanderlof wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008, Sugathan, Rupesh wrote:
>
>   
>> I have a scenario where I need to deploy the same jffs2 image on two
>> flash memory parts, one with a 128KB sector size and the other with
>> 256KB sector size.
>>
>> I read from http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/doc/jffs2.html that
>> building the jffs2 image with smaller 'erase block size' should be
>> harmless even in the flash with 256KB sector size, although there might
>> be some warning messages at mount time. However, the warning messages
>> are not desired since this is a production image.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me if there is any utility that can be used to alter the
>> erase block size on-the-fly? Or I would greatly appreciate if anyone has
>> some other solution to this problem.
>>     
You can use linux to flash image :). Erase the flash, mount it and 
install file.

Regards Michael