MTD Partition problems

[Jörn Engel]

On Mon, 5 August 2002 14:10:24 -0500, Vipin Malik wrote:
> Well, I think there is still a problem somewhere. Regardless of which 
> /dev/mtd<n> device is the actual physical partition (that was a good 
> academic discussion), JFFS2 never gets passed the /dev/mtd<n> device by me- 
> only the /dev/mtdblock<n> device.

I fail to see what was academic about that discussion. Is it academic,
if you pass /dev/hda1 (empty partition) or /dev/hda (whole disk with
root partition) to mke2fs? Try it and tell me again. :-)

> I can do a 'less -f /dev/mtdblock2' and see that's the partition that I 
> want to mount JFFS2 on (it's all formatted correctly). However, a 'mount -t 
> jffs2 /dev/mtdblock2 /mnt/flash' fails as JFFS2 sees a bunch of data to 
> whichever mtd device handle its been passed (by mtdblock2) and refuses to 
> mount as it cannot find any valid JFFS2 nodes there.

If it was formatted correctly, it should get mounted. But I have no
idea, what "it's all formatted correctly" or "JFFS2 sees a bunch of
data" means. Try doing a trivial format (eraseall /dev/mtd<n>) and
mount that. If that fails, show me that the partition has all 0xff and
the jffs2 messages and I will have a look. Until then, I consider this
to be pebkac.

Jörn

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