reach of jffs2 within image vs. partition

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Apr 2 09:04:53 EST 2003


On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 15:03, Jörn Engel wrote:
> In my experience, better always use images of the same size as the
> partition.
> 
> You don't *have* to, but then some will figure out how to not erase
> the partition, write the image to it, remount the partition and find
> some old data in the filesystem that was supposed to be erased.
> 
> Give people the option to shoot themselves in the foot and eventually
> someone will do it - and blame you. ;)

Oh yeah, that too -- good point :)

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dwmw2




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