* Do not strip the initfs.jffs2 image, it is only 2MB

* Some fixups on the doc/dumping documentation

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/doc/dumping b/doc/dumping
index 0017a33..3f22a82 100644
--- a/doc/dumping
+++ b/doc/dumping
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ pieces at certains offsets of the device internal memory.
 
 <b>Technical details:</b>
 
- * The internal flash memory is exposed to the system as MTD devices. So it's
- * possible to dump the individual sections of a flashed firmware.
+ * The internal flash memory is exposed to the system as MTD devices.
+ * Is possible to dump the individual sections of a flashed firmware.
  *
  * READ src/dump.c for detailed information.
 
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ pieces at certains offsets of the device internal memory.
    mtd2 - starts with NOLO img\x5c\x13 and \x00 padding
           0x00800 - zImage
 
-   mtd3 - rootfs.jffs2 (20M) aka 0x200000 vs 0x3900000
+	  > NOLO is a four byte marker, next four bytes
+	  > can vary since it is kernel image size
+
+   mtd3 - initfs.jffs2 (2M) aka 0x200000 vs 0x3900000
 
    mtd4 - rootfs.jffs2 (a fucking copy of the above rootfs?)
diff --git a/src/dump.c b/src/dump.c
index ca6842c..3efc79b 100644
--- a/src/dump.c
+++ b/src/dump.c
@@ -134,7 +134,8 @@ int reverse_extract_pieces(char *dir)
 	rf_strip("xloader.bin");
 	rf_strip("secondary.bin");
 	rf_strip("zImage");
-	rf_strip("initfs.jffs2");
+//	rf_strip("initfs.jffs2"); 	// do not strip initfs, is 2MB long
+					//and can be useful for data recovery
 	printf("Identifying extracted files...\n");
 	printf("%s: xloader\n", fpid_file("xloader.bin"));
 	printf("%s: secondary.bin\n", fpid_file("secondary.bin"));