Yes, /mnt/ is an existing directory.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Charles Manning<manningc2@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> On Friday 31 July 2009 13:06:26 Manoj wrote:
>> I am trying to mount an empty partition as yaffs2 and can't mount it.
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>> # mount -t yaffs2 /dev/mtdb-ctrl /mnt/
>> mount: mounting /dev/mtdb-ctrl on /mnt/ failed: Not a directory
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> Is /mnt a directory?
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>> From dmesg,
>> [42949409.200000] yaffs: dev is 32505858 name is "mtdblock2"
>> [42949409.200000] yaffs: passed flags ""
>> [42949409.200000] yaffs_read_super: Using yaffs2
>> [42949409.200000] yaffs_read_super: block size 4096
>> [42949409.200000] yaffs: Attempting MTD mount on 31.2, "mtdblock2"
>> [42949409.200000]  erase c0ad33d4
>> [42949409.200000]  read c0ad37d4
>> [42949409.200000]  write c0ad30ec
>> [42949409.200000]  readoob c0ad3704
>> [42949409.200000]  writeoob c0ad325c
>> [42949409.200000]  block_isbad c0ad3614
>> [42949409.200000]  block_markbad c0ad3678
>> [42949409.200000]  writesize 2048
>> [42949409.200000]  oobsize 64
>> [42949409.200000]  erasesize 131072
>> [42949409.200000]  size 220200960
>> [42949409.200000] yaffs locking
>> [42949409.720000] block 1677 is bad
>> [42949409.720000] block 1678 is bad
>> [42949409.720000] block 1679 is bad
>> [42949409.720000] block 1680 is bad
>> [42949409.730000] yaffs_read_super: guts initialised OK
>> [42949409.730000] yaffs unlocking
>> [42949409.730000] yaffs_get_inode for object 1
>> [42949409.730000] yaffs_read_super: got root inode
>> [42949409.730000] yaffs_read_super: d_alloc_root done
>> [42949409.730000] yaffs_read_super: done
>> [42949409.730000] yaffs_sync_fs
>> [42949409.730000] yaffs_clear_inode: ino 1, count 0 null object
>> [42949409.730000] yaffs_put_super
>> [42949409.730000] yaffs locking
>> [42949409.730000] save exit: isCheckpointed 1
>> [42949409.730000] yaffs unlocking
>>
>> I have completely erased the partition before mounting it.
>>
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