How do you wipe a UBI filesystem?

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From	Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
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Subject	How do you wipe a UBI filesystem?
Date	Wed, 5 Feb 2025 19:30:04 -0000 (UTC)
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Pretend I've got an MTD partition attached as a UBI device.

That UBI device contains a couple differen UBI volumes.

In one of those volumes is a UBIFS filesystem that has a bunch of
files in it.

I've done some googling, but all of the answers are "use
ubiformat". That will wipe the whole device. I just want to
re-initialize one ubifs filesytem in one volume -- not the whole
ubi device.

How do I wipe that filesystem (set it back to empty).  Do I need to
create an empty ubifs "image" file using mkfs.ubifs and then use
ubiupdatevol to write that image to the volume?

Isn't there a simpler way?

-- 
Grant

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How do you wipe a UBI filesystem? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-05 19:30 +0000
  Re: How do you wipe a UBI filesystem? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-05 21:15 +0000
  Re: How do you wipe a UBI filesystem? chrisq <devzero@nospam.com> - 2025-02-12 15:03 +0000
    Re: How do you wipe a UBI filesystem? Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2025-02-12 18:03 +0000

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