Re: Having troubles in updating MTD partitions

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Suki Buryani <[email protected]> wrote:
>>5824 is the usable size of the file system on mtdblock3, i.e. after subtracting
> the overhead for file system bookkeeping.
>
> By default mtd partitions were like
>
> cat /proc/partitions
> major minor  #blocks  name
>
>   31     0       8192 mtdblock0
>   31     1        256 mtdblock1
>   31     2       2048 mtdblock2
>   31     3       5824 mtdblock3
>   31     4         64 mtdblock4
>
> mtdblock3 was having 5824 blocks and 5824 blocks were able to use,
>
> I think you are missing my point, i have increase size of mtdblock3 but i am unable use whole partion and idk why

Sorry, I indeed misunderstood you.

Could it be that jffs2 requires a minimum granularity for file system sizes?
Probably the size needs to be a multiple of the eraseblock size?

$ factor 5824
5824: 2 2 2 2 2 2 7 13
$ factor 5884
5884: 2 2 1471

I.e. the former is a multiple of 64 (KiB), the latter is a multiple of 4 (KiB).

> there is one more thing, Can any one tell me how i can change eraseblock for a partition, i > believe i also having wrong eraseblock for mtdblock3

Sorry, I don't know.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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