On Thu, 19 Jul 2007, Rick Bronson wrote:

Yes. There is no any magic formatting.

>  Actually I'm only trying to format the partition for yaffs.  I guess
> I wrongly assumed that the old mkyaffs was actually laying down some
> kind of magic partitioning info for yaffs.
>
>  So, this is all I need to do to format a partition to yaffs2 (for a
> 512/16 NAND part)?
>
> mtd-utils-1.0.1/flash_eraseall /dev/mtd1
>
>  Rick
>
>> On Thursday 19 July 2007 02:49:28 Rick Bronson wrote:
>>> Hi Sergey,
>>>
>>>   Thanks very much for all of the help.
>>>
>>>   I've got just one more question, if you don't mind.  I promise not
>>> to bug you after this one ;-)
>>>
>>>   The issue for us in using the mkyaffs2image or the nandwrite is
>>> that we would have to tftp around these huge files that represent
>>> each of our yaffs partitions.  So for example, when we want to format
>>> a yaffs partition we would have to do:
>>>
>>> flash_eraseall --jffs2 /dev/mtd1
>>> nanddump -l 1 /dev/mtd1 > fs1r.bin
>>> nandwrite -n -o /dev/mtd1 fs1r.bin
>>>
>>>   I could skip step 2 above but it would require me to tftp over the
>>> fs1r.bin image which is quite large.
>>>
>>>   It would be really nice if there is a way to yaffs erase a
> partition
>>> without either 1) making files on-the-fly or 2) tftp'ing over big
>>> partition files.  Can you tell me what you think is the best
>>> (easiest?) way to accomplish this?
>>
>> I'm unsure as to exactly what you're trying to accomplish here.
>>
>> To erase a yaffs partition all you need to do is flash_eraseall. An
> erased
>> partition is a formatted one.
>>
>> I suspect you're trying to achieve more than just that.
>>
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