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mcbook	2013-08-27 , 13:05
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Be aware that you cannot read from or write to ext4 partitions with a windows pc! so go linux...

You need to open terminal, su to root and edit /etc/fstab

Code:

devel-su (default password is rootme)

install nano if you don't already have

Code:

apt-get install nano

edit /etc/fstab

Code:

nano /etc/fstab

alter the line for your MyDocs Partition
mine looks like this

Code:

/dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs ext4 rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1 0 0

make no typos here!!! no surplus spaces between values! everything in a single line!

then just format your partition:

1. unmount

Code:

#umount /dev/mmcblk0p1

2. partition

Code:

#/sbin/mkfs.ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p1

3. mount again

Code:

mount -t ext4 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs

reboot and copy everything back

you also need to check your user-dirs.dirs file (located under /home/user/config) to see if all paths are still correct and probably trigger tracker to index your files again (just make some photos....)

Last edited by mcbook; 2013-08-27 at 13:41.

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