SmartMedia Card need to create fs before mounting it ?

[John Hall]

On 26 November 2002 07:36 Charles Manning <manningc2 at actrix.gen.nz>
wrote:

> > When I mount a partition on the SmartMedia card, if I must need to
> > put a jffs2's image on it before mounting it ? Or existed a tool
> > that can directly make jffs2 on the nand flash ?
> 
> I believe you will need to run mkfs.jffs2 to format the nand first.
> 
> You will find this in mtd/util in the mtd cvs.

Or just erase the NAND flash to create an empty JFFS2 partition:

	eraseall /dev/mtdx

eraseall is also in mtd/util.

cheers,
John