You still have not explained what steps you took.

You don't need to fdisk or anything like that. Just erase the flash first.

It is also important to turn on all the tracing you can when you start out. 
Read:http://www.yaffs.net/yaffs-debugging

echo 0xffffffff > /proc/yaffs

Also read 
http://www.aleph1.co.uk/lurker/message/20090826.015413.14594671.en.html for a 
general approach.



On Tuesday 19 January 2010 01:53:48 Saquib wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Thanks for continued support and cooperation.
>
> We have created partition on NAND flash and able to mount one of the
> directory to that partition.
>
> Issue is when we are trying to create a directory/file on mounted folder,
> getting the following errors.
>
> *"yaffs tragedy: no more erased blocks"*
> *mkdir: can not create a directory 'temp' : Cannot allocate memory*
>
>
> Where temp is a directory/file name we are trying to create. We are not
> doing "fdisk" before doing the mounting.
>
> Thanks in advance..
>
> Regards,
> Saquib Herman
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 4:10 AM, Charles Manning 
<manningc2@actrix.gen.nz>wrote:
> > On Wednesday 13 January 2010 20:10:27 Saquib wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I am using the YAFFS for the linux 2.16.21 version. I am facing some
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > I am able to list my YAFFS and YAFFS2 file system in /proc/filesystems
> >
> > and
> >
> > > also created three partitions.
> > >
> > > But the problem is. I am not able to mount these partition on any of
> > > the folders by using mount command. Let me know what may the issue.
> >
> > You need to give some examples of the commands you are using and the
> > errors you are getting.
> >
> > > One more query is do we need to do a format before mounting the
> >
> > partition.
> >
> > No.
> >
> > Charles
> >
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