How does one mount an existing jffs2 partition so it is writeable?

[Jörn Engel]

On Tue, 20 August 2002 13:19:14 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Yeah -- you're probably right. That's the reason I refused to do the 
> automatic unlock when it was originally suggested. We are fairly good about 
> aborting a mount attempt if it really doesn't look like a JFFS2 partition, 
> but if you have the partitioning wrong so that the range we try to mount 
> includes some JFFS2 _and_ something important, that's still going to break.

And if we have an old jffs2 partition that was partially overwritten
by cramfs. Without a prior erase, this will be identified as jffs2.

Pretty rare in production systems, though.

Jörn

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