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

[From: Alex Leung]

Hi Faheem and David,



> Thanks. You are right. "block device emulating a mtd" works for me now.
>
> Alex Leung.
>
> 2008/8/18 Faheem Pervez <trippin1 at gmail.com>
>
> 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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>>
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