2.6 Kernel not mounting JFFS2 partition

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind at infradead.org
Fri Nov 17 07:34:14 EST 2006


Hi,

On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 15:00 -0500, Glen Johnson wrote:
> 1. "eraseall /dev/mtd2" which ended with "Erased 2048 Kibyte @ 0 -- 100%
> complete."
At this point it is nice to make sure if the erase functionality works.
Try to read /dev/mtd2 and make sure it contains only 0xFFs.

> 8. mount -t jffs2 mtd2 /mnt/ Once again many error messages/info
> messages. Finally it died with these last lines:
> You cannot use older JFFS2 filesystems with newer kernels

Download newer JFFS2 utilities and use newer mkfs.jffs2. It will
probably solve your problems.

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Best regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Битюцкий Артём)





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