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On 10/08/2009 11:54 AM, Hunter Adrian (Nokia-D/Helsinki) wrote:
> Tobias Wahlström wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> This is my first post at this list - I hope it makes (at least) some
>> sense anyway. I have looked through the mailing archive and searched
>> using google without finding anything useful on the topic. I hope I
>> provided the information you need - if not, just tell me what you are
>> missing!
>>
>> I'm working on a project where we would like to use ubi and ubifs as
>> root filesystem since it seems to be the best choise in many ways. But
>> I have a problem which I can't find anything about either the mail
>> archive nor using google etc. I currently use linux 2.6.26 with some
>> patches. My target is the freescale imx255 pdk board. My build system
>> is Ubuntu 9.04 (run within vmware).
>>
>> I have cloned the mtd-utils.git (today 2009-09-05) and compiled the
>> tools both for my build system and my target (both without xattr
>> support). Then I created a ubifs image using mkfs.ubifs on my build
>> system and tried to flash it to the nand using ubiformat. The commands
>> I used was:
>>
>> build>  mkfs.ubifs -m 2048 -e 256KiB -c 384 -U --root rootfs -o rootfs.ubifs
>> target>  flash_eraseall /dev/mtd2
>> target>  ubiformat /dev/mtd2 -s 2048 -v -f rootfs.ubifs
>
> Also, doesn't ubiformat take a UBI image not a UBIFS image

Right.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)