[maemo-developers] error when attempting to mount a jffs2 image on a ubuntu host

[From: Faheem Pervez]

Hi,

mtdram requires 88mb of raw ram on a 2gb system to mount a ~2Mb initfs
image, i don't think it will work well with a rootfs.
Use the "block device emulating  a mtd" and mount the image read only.

Tar it up and use mtd-tools to make a new rootfs.jffs2

Regards,

Faheem

P.S Please excuse the messiness of this email, typing (badly) from a N800
with low battery.

On 8/18/08, Alex Leung <atwleung at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I tried to follow the steps listed below:
> http://maemo.org/community/wiki/ModifyingRootImage/
>
> to mount a jffs2 file system using the "kernel memory emulating a MTD via
> mtdram" appraoch.
>
> but as soon as I executed the dd command, I will be hit by the below error:
> dd: writing to `/tmp/mtdblock0': No space left on device
>
> My ubuntu's version is 7.10. the rootfs image I am trying to load is the
> rootfs.jffs2 extracted from the OS2008 2.2007.51-3 image, using the flasher
> tool.
>
> Thanks for your gracious help in sharing your experience in this matter.
>
> Alex Leung.
>
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