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Hi!

i currently have new partitions:

/dev/mmcblk0p4

/dev/mmcblk0p5

/dev/mmcblk0p6

my dilemma is, how can i mount them? or use them as additional space to my "installable applications memory?"

im still trying but currently, im getting a "permission denied" and/or "invalid argument" errors.

please help.......my deepest thanks.
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to test (but i know it wont work), i try:

mount /dev/mmcblk0px

but as expected, cannot find /dev/mmcblk0px in /etc/fstab
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As a one-off, you can use "mount /dev/mmcblk0px /mnt/mountpoint". If you want to have them mounted permanently then you probably need to look at either adding them to fstab (if it's a static file) or adding them to whatever script is creating the fstab file.
 

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Originally Posted by Rob1n View Post
As a one-off, you can use "mount /dev/mmcblk0px /mnt/mountpoint". If you want to have them mounted permanently then you probably need to look at either adding them to fstab (if it's a static file) or adding them to whatever script is creating the fstab file.
so there is no assurance that i can mount them to add up to my installable apps memory?

thanks i will try that now!
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what could i be doing wrong? no such file or directory
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what could i be doing wrong? no such file or directory
Have you created /mnt/mountpoint? The directory you're mounting to has to exist first. Oh, and have you formatted the partitions?
 

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Originally Posted by gabby131 View Post
what could i be doing wrong? no such file or directory
The directory you want to mount in needs to exist. Create /media/folder1 or whatever and then do the mount command
Adding them in /etc/fstab (google to see the format for fstab) ensures that your partitions get mounted automagically at boot time
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fstab will be overwritten at reboot; to fix that, you'll need to edit /etc/event.d/rcS-late and comment out line 48, so it reads

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# cmp -s $tmp_fstab $fstab || cp $tmp_fstab $fstab
 

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Originally Posted by gabby131 View Post
so there is no assurance that i can mount them to add up to my installable apps memory?
Not really - if you want to use them for installable apps, you'd need to mount them below /opt somewhere. Unless you have particularly big apps then I doubt you'll find a suitable mountpoint that'll allow you to move a lot of data from the current location though.
 

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i forgot to mkdir /mnt/mountpoint

YES! progress!, next , i got an "invalid argument" >_<
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