The previous patches changed the UBI naming and made automounting
UBIFS easier. Update the documentation accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/user/ubi.rst | 44 +++++++++++++++-----------------------------
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/user/ubi.rst b/Documentation/user/ubi.rst
index a187680..c300c0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/user/ubi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/user/ubi.rst
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@ barebox has both UBI and UBIFS support. For handling UBI barebox has commands si
the Linux commands :ref:`command_ubiformat`, :ref:`command_ubiattach`, :ref:`command_ubidetach`,
:ref:`command_ubimkvol` and :ref:`command_ubirmvol`.
-The following examples assume we work on the first UBI device. Replace ``ubi0`` with
-the appropriate number when you have multiple UBI devices.
-
The first step for preparing a pristine Flash for UBI is to :ref:`command_ubiformat` the
device:
@@ -28,17 +25,17 @@ After a device has been formatted it can be attached with :ref:`command_ubiattac
ubiattach /dev/nand0.root
-This will create the controlling node ``/dev/ubi0`` and also register all volumes present
-on the device as ``/dev/ubi0.<volname>``. When freshly formatted there won't be any volumes
-present. A volume can be created with:
+This will create the controlling node ``/dev/nand0.root.ubi`` and also register all volumes
+present on the device as ``/dev/nand0.root.ubi.<volname>``. When freshly formatted there won't
+be any volumes present. A volume can be created with:
.. code-block:: sh
- ubimkvol /dev/ubi0 root 0
+ ubimkvol /dev/nand0.root.ubi root 0
The first parameter is the controlling node. The second parameter is the name of the volume.
-In this case the volume can be found under ``/dev/ubi.root``. The third parameter contains
-the size. A size of zero means that all available space shall be used.
+In this case the volume can be found under ``/dev/dev/nand0.root.ubi.root``. The third
+parameter contains the size. A size of zero means that all available space shall be used.
The next step is to write a UBIFS image to the volume. The image must be created on a host using
the ``mkfs.ubifs`` command. ``mkfs.ubifs`` requires several arguments for describing the
@@ -46,7 +43,7 @@ flash layout. Values for these arguments can be retrieved from a ``devinfo ubi``
.. code-block:: sh
- barebox@Phytec pcm970:/ devinfo ubi0
+ barebox@Phytec pcm970:/ devinfo nand0.root.ubi
Parameters:
peb_size: 16384
leb_size: 15360
@@ -76,38 +73,27 @@ The UBIFS image can be transferred to the board for example with TFTP:
.. code-block:: sh
- cp /mnt/tftp/root.ubifs /dev/ubi0.root
+ cp /mnt/tftp/root.ubifs /dev/nand0.root.ubi.root
Finally it can be mounted using the :ref:`command_mount` command:
.. code-block:: sh
- mkdir -p /mnt/ubi
- mount -t ubifs /dev/ubi0.root /mnt/ubi
+ mount /dev/nand0.root.ubi.root
+The default mount path when the mount point is skipped is ``/mnt/<devname>``,
+so in this example it will be ``/mnt/nand0.root.ubi.root``.
The second time the UBIFS is mounted the above can be simplified to:
.. code-block:: sh
ubiattach /dev/nand0.root
- mount -t ubifs /dev/ubi0.root /mnt/ubi
+ mount /dev/nand0.root.ubi.root
Mounting the UBIFS can also be made transparent with the automount command.
-With this helper script in ``/env/bin/automount-ubi:``:
-
-.. code-block:: sh
-
- #!/bin/sh
-
- if [ ! -e /dev/ubi0 ]; then
- ubiattach /dev/nand0 || exit 1
- fi
-
- mount -t ubifs /dev/ubi0.root $automount_path
-
-
-The command ``automount -d /mnt/ubi/ '/env/bin/automount-ubi'`` will automatically
-attach the UBI device and mount the UBIFS image to ``/mnt/ubi`` whenever ``/mnt/ubi``
+The command ``automount -d /mnt/nand0.root.ubi.root 'mount nand0.root.ubi.root'``
+will automatically attach the UBI device and mount the UBIFS image to
+``/mnt/nand0.root.ubi.root`` whenever ``/mnt/nand0.root.ubi.root``
is first accessed. The automount command can be added to ``/env/init/automount`` to
execute it during startup.
--
2.1.4
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