Re: [BUG?] SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch

Phillip Lougher
2009-01-12T14:53:25Z

Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> i get the following error when trying to mount a squashfs partition on
> an ARM system (edb9302) with linux 2.6.29-rc1:
>
> mount /dev/mtdblock6 /mnt/
> SQUASHFS error: Major/Minor mismatch, older Squashfs 3.1 filesystems
> are unsupported
> mount: mounting /dev/mtdblock6 on /mnt/ failed: Invalid argument
>
> the image has been created using mksquashfs v3.4:
>
> mksquashfs . /tmp/rootfs.squfs -le -noappend
>

You have to use the latest version of Mksquashfs in CVS available
from http://squashfs.org.

git-cvsimport -v -d :pserver:anonymous@squashfs.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/squashfs squashfs

Phillip