At this stage you will need to provide more info:

cat /proc/yaffs
cat /proc/mtd
uname -a

Seems odd that is immediately doing a sync and umount.

-- CHarles



On Friday 31 July 2009 16:36:30 Manoj wrote:
> 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.
> >>
> >> # mount -t yaffs2 /dev/mtdb-ctrl /mnt/
> >> mount: mounting /dev/mtdb-ctrl on /mnt/ failed: Not a directory
> >
> > Is /mnt a directory?
> >
> >> 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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