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Subject: Re: problem with build jffs2 filesystem 
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fyaowen@sina.com said:
>    dd if=jffs2.image of=/dev/mtd7
>    mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtd7 /mnt
> After I gave out this instruction, all partitions on Neponset were
> erased.  

That mount command should have failed. You cannot mount the character 
device. 

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dwmw2