[ts-7000] Re: erasing (and recreating) rootfs partition in on-board flash

["PeterElliot" <>]

Hi,

Wouldn't you need to reconstruct the filesystem using something like 
mkfs after erasing the device?

PJE

--- In  Michael Schmidt <> wrote:
>
> odonovan_dan wrote:
> > Hi Michael
> > 
> > Thanks very much for your help.
> > I downloaded the command below, and tried it from the fastboot 
shell
> > as follows:
> > ./eraseall /dev/mtd/3
> > It appeared to run without any errors, and reported that it
> > successfully erased the 28MB partition.  However, when I remounted 
the
> > partition and typed 'ls' I got the following:
> > 
> > $ ./eraseall /dev/mtd/3
> > Erased 28656 Kibyte @ 0 -- 100% complete.       
> > $ mount -t yaffs /dev/mtdblock/3 /onboardflash/
> > $ cd /onboardflash/
> > $ ls
> > ls:
> > 
./&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65
533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#
65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;
&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#6553
3;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65
533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#
65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;
&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#6553
3;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65
533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#
65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;
&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;&#6553
3;&#65533;&#65533;&#65533;y
>  > [...]
> > lost+found
> > 
`



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