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Re: How do you wipe a UBI filesystem?

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On 2/5/25 19:30, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 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?
> 

Try a search:

"ubi file system utilities Linux"

Which may help, third entry down ?.

Chris

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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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