diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 507c36b4d1..8226a61bab 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -2183,3 +2183,6 @@
 	  inode structure would fit at the end of a block.  This is a rare case
 	  if the block size is large, but can be common for tiny block sizes
 	  and results in a crash and file system corruption.
+	* fs/nxffs/nxffs_initialize.c:  Fix an initialize error.  If the FLASH
+	  is on power-up, NXFFS will fail to initialize correctly.
+
diff --git a/fs/nxffs/nxffs_initialize.c b/fs/nxffs/nxffs_initialize.c
index 0fa879f755..0fe519ceed 100644
--- a/fs/nxffs/nxffs_initialize.c
+++ b/fs/nxffs/nxffs_initialize.c
@@ -398,7 +398,24 @@ int nxffs_limits(FAR struct nxffs_volume_s *volume)
            * is full?
            */
 
-          fvdbg("nxffs_getc failed: %d\n", -ch);
+          if (volume->ioblock + 1 >= volume->nblocks &&
+              volume->iooffset + 1 >= volume->geo.blocksize)
+            {
+              /* Yes.. the FLASH is full.  Force the offsets to the end of FLASH */
+
+              volume->froffset = volume->nblocks * volume->geo.blocksize;
+              fvdbg("Assume no free FLASH, froffset: %d\n", volume->froffset);
+              if (noinodes)
+                {
+                  volume->inoffset = volume->froffset;
+                  fvdbg("No inodes, inoffset: %d\n", volume->inoffset);
+                }
+              return OK;
+            }
+
+          // No?  Then it is some other failure that we do not know how to handle
+
+          fdbg("nxffs_getc failed: %d\n", -ch);
           return ch;
         }
 
diff --git a/fs/nxffs/nxffs_inode.c b/fs/nxffs/nxffs_inode.c
index 121c1f6db4..3362d1f299 100644
--- a/fs/nxffs/nxffs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/nxffs/nxffs_inode.c
@@ -470,9 +470,11 @@ off_t nxffs_inodeend(FAR struct nxffs_volume_s *volume,
 
   if (entry->doffset)
     {
-      /* This is the maximum size of one data block */
+      /* This is the maximum size of one data block.  It is the physcal size
+       * of the block minus the minimum number of headers: block sna data
+       */
 
-      uint16_t maxsize = volume->geo.blocksize - SIZEOF_NXFFS_DATA_HDR;
+      uint16_t maxsize = volume->geo.blocksize - SIZEOF_NXFFS_BLOCK_HDR - SIZEOF_NXFFS_DATA_HDR;
 
       /* This is the minimum number of blocks require to span all of the
        * inode data.  One additional block could possibly be required -- we