Fix mounting jffs2 by mtd name
Johannes Stezenbach
js at linuxtv.org
Fri Dec 16 12:24:07 EST 2005
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005, Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> Busybox mount insists that mtd: refers to a NFS mount:
>
> # cat /proc/mtd
> dev: size erasesize name
> mtd0: 02000000 00004000 "foo"
> # mount mtd:foo /mnt -t jffs2
> mount: mtd: Unknown host
> mount: nfsmount failed: Connection refused
> mount: Mounting mtd:foo on /mnt failed: Invalid argument
>
> I suggest new syntax:
>
> # mount mtd/foo /mnt -t jffs2
OK, I found out this was a bug in the specific version
of busybox mount in use here. Up-to-date busybox and
util-linux mount seem to be fine.
Silly idea to fix this in the kernel ;-/
Sorry for the noise,
Johannes
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