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Tiny Core Base => TCB Q&A Forum => Topic started by: crichton on December 02, 2011, 08:56:30 AM

Title: JFFS2
Post by: crichton on December 02, 2011, 08:56:30 AM

Greetings Fellow Tiny-ixers!

I want to create a JFFS2 partition and mount it to use as the single partition TCL will live on. Any advice, I can't seem to find any tools or extensions to do so.

All the best!

C.

Title: Re: JFFS2
Post by: Rich on December 02, 2011, 11:08:02 AM

Hi crichton
filesystems-2.6.33.3-tinycore.tcz contains JFFS2 support.

Title: Re: JFFS2
Post by: bmarkus on December 02, 2011, 11:18:26 AM

Quote from: crichton on December 02, 2011, 08:56:30 AM

Greetings Fellow Tiny-ixers!

I want to create a JFFS2 partition and mount it to use as the single partition TCL will live on. Any advice, I can't seem to find any tools or extensions to do so.

All the best!

C.

Do you mean installed on and booted from?

Title: Re: JFFS2
Post by: crichton on December 02, 2011, 11:39:45 AM

Yeah, I mean installed and booted from.  :D

I've installed 'filesystems-3.0.3-tinycore.tcz' - are there some sort of invocation of mkfs.jffs I'm missing?

C.

Title: Re: JFFS2
Post by: bmarkus on December 02, 2011, 11:48:48 AM

I'm not sure JFFS support is available at boot time without remastering.

Title: Re: JFFS2
Post by: Rich on December 02, 2011, 11:54:27 AM

Hi crichton
Sorry about that, filesystems just contains the drivers for reading and writing. To format, I think you
need a package like mtd-tools, which is not currently in the repository.

Title: Re: JFFS2
Post by: crichton on December 02, 2011, 12:13:27 PM

Yeah, well I guess I'll have to look into remastering my ISO, and building mtd-tools as a package. Surprsing SquashFS in implemented as default, yet no JFFS2. I guess it's not often used on FlashRAM devices.

I'll keep you good folks posted.

C.