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Subject: Creating an Empty JFFS2 File System
From: Grant Erickson <gerickson@nuovations.com>
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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?

Regards,

Grant