Re: Cloning a filesystem using the bootldr

From: Mark G. Lewis (Lewis@erg.sri.com)
Date: Wed Aug 28 2002 - 12:08:53 EDT


Emmanuel,

It worked for me on both an IBM 340MB microdrive, and a 240Mb compact flash card (faster!).
Perhaps your bootldr is too old. I used rev 2.18.48

Mark Lewis

Emmanuel Blot wrote:

> > It should also work for backups:
> > boot> copy root hda1:backup.jffs2
> > with the caveat that bootldr can only update files that already exist -- it cannot make new
> directory entries. > Patches to fix that would be accepted.
>
> I tried this command (after having created a file on the VFAT partition [IBM 340MB microdrive]),
> but it failed:



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