Flashing NAND from NAND

[Matthias Huber]

Joachim Ott schrieb:
> 2009/10/20 Matthias Huber <matthias.huber at wollishausen.de>:
>   
>> ...
>> just for clearness: is the boot - partition different from the rootfs ?
>> and how are the other partitions ?
>>     
>
> /dev/mtd0 is the 2 MB NOR flash that contains the NOR bootloader
>
> /dev/mtd1 - mtd6 are the 256 MB NAND flash, the names and sizes are
> shown when the kernel boots (check "dmesg | more" after boot) and they
> contain:
>
> - u-boot or Qi
> - u-boot environment
> - kernel
> - splash image shown directly after power on
> - factory settings
> - rootfs
>
>   
my question was thougt as: do the other partitions also have to be erased ?

on the mounted rootfs (/dev/mtdblock6) i am writing just normal without 
erasing, thats why i am stating this question.

and what is then the difference between /dev/mtd6 and /dev/mtdblock6 ?

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