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I'm using CMake with ESPIDF 4.4.4

I have a large SPIFFs partition (4MB) which take a long time to flash each time I make a change to the app.
But the SPIFFS partition itself hardly ever changes.

Is there a simple way to flash the app binary, partition table (which includes an entry for the SPIFFS partition) etc, but NOT flash the unchanged SPIFFs partition?

Anyone?
Or is this the wrong part of the forum for this question?

The spiffs contents get created/flashed by a spiffs_create_partition_image() line in a CMakeLists.txt file somewhere. If you comment that line out by prefixing it with a '#', the partition isn't created/flashed anymore.

Huh thanks.

I was sure that when I tried that previously it still wrote the SPIFFs partition.