No space left on almost empty JFFS2 filesystem

Jörn Engel joern at wohnheim.fh-wedel.de
Wed Jun 25 14:49:33 EDT 2003


On Wed, 25 June 2003 19:29:54 +0100, Jasmine Strong wrote:
> On Wednesday, Jun 25, 2003, at 19:24 Europe/London, Paul van Gool wrote:
> 
> >Creating am image with '-e 0x10000' and running with it, results in:
> >[snip]
> 
> Did you erase the flash properly?  It looks like it's got messed up 
> somehow.
> 
> Re- the other point.  You need, afaik, to have at least five empty 
> erase blocks
> before jffs2 will try to write to the flash.  This is, yes, half a 
> mibibit.
> 
> Unless this has changed, Jörn?

No, it hasn't.  The changes were started, but never finished.

Jörn

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