No space left on almost empty JFFS2 filesystem

Paul van Gool paul.vangool at rinconnetworks.com
Wed Jun 25 14:20:20 EDT 2003


So I tried:

mkfs.jffs2 --pad=0x80000 --little-endian --squash -e 0x20000 -d /home/vangool/jffs -o jffs.img

thinking that that would give me 3 erase blocks but I still get the
same error. Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks.

Paul


On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:58:46AM -0700, Paul van Gool wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 04:52:34PM +0100, Jasmine Strong wrote:
> > JFFS2 filesystems require a certain number of erase blocks reserved for
> > garbage collection before you can write anything to them.
> I see. 1 Block will indeed never be enough then. Shows my ignorance ;-).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Paul 
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