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	Alexislavie	2012-09-08 , 13:52
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Tips :

- Assign a fix drive letter for your N9 on Windows :
Launch "Ext2 Volume Manager" then right click your N9 partition and click on "Change Drive Letter", click on the actual drive letter, and click the button change, select the new letter and don't change any other settings, click OK. That's it.

- Accessing your N9 on Windows without an ext2 driver :
Select "Sync and Connect" mode, you'll be able to see your files, or you can use bluetooth too.

- Formatting MyDocs into ext3 or ext4 :
If you're a Linux only user you can adapt this tutorial easily by changing this command :

Code:

./mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcblk0p1

into

Code:

./mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1
or
./mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p1

and edit the fstab this way :

rootfs / rootfs defaults,errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p3 /home ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs ext3 rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1 0 0
# /dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs vfat noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime,utf8 ,uid=29999,shortname=mixed,dmask=000,fmask=0133,ro dir 0 0
ubi0:var /var ubifs noauto,no_chk_data_crc,bulk_read

or this way :

rootfs / rootfs defaults,errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p3 /home ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1 0 0
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs ext4 rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1 0 0
# /dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs vfat noauto,nodev,noexec,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime,utf8 ,uid=29999,shortname=mixed,dmask=000,fmask=0133,ro dir 0 0
ubi0:var /var ubifs noauto,no_chk_data_crc,bulk_read

Additional informations for advanced users only :

- Benchmarks to test the Windows ext2 driver performance :

On the left fat32, on the right ext2.

Note : ext2 performance should be better than fat32 on the N9, as Meego use Linux as it's kernel.

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Last edited by Alexislavie; 2012-09-09 at 22:59.

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