Hi,
hi I'm very confused about the automatic mount of mmc cards. I have formatted as ext3 the internal 2 gb card of my n810. Now I want to mount this card automatically at boot time, in a new mount point /Root, and I added this row on fstab file:
When I boot up the sistem, if I give a mount command to see active mounted partition, I noticed that fstab row is ignored, and I have always this mount active:
This isn't in fstab...
Maybe this is mounted automatically from the program ke-recv? There is a way to avoid that system mount automatically the /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /media/mmc2?

Thx in advance,
Salgua

The N800 does ignore fstab. I opened a bug a while ago on this, and was told that fstab was not flexible enough, so they have a script (osso-mmc-mount.sh) that runs when it detects the card is available.

I suppose you could hack the script to mount your card somewhere else. Or you could take a path of lesser resistance, and just simbolically link your /Root to /media/mmc2.

Hope this helps,

Craig...

Thx, I used a workaround using symlink.

Bye!

is ext3 recommended for flash cards? I'm using ext2 as I seem to remember that the ext3 journal isn't ideal for flash.

edit: and i use "noatime", too...

ext3 + noatime + writeback is closest to ext2, but at least has automatic fsck.

interesting. and I can easily convert to ext3 by just adding a journal to my ext2 fs. I might just do that, ta.

Flash cards are better these days, but I did ordinary ext3 (with noatime) and the sectors where the journal were at ended getting errors (burnout?) after a few months with my zaurus a few years ago. I'd do jffs2 if you really need journaled files.

Btw,

osso-mmc-mount.sh resides in /usr/sbin and can be edited to support both noatime & writeback. Just look for the ext3 part in the file and then just add after the to look like this:

Hope that this helps as well

I dunno if fstab isn't flexible enough to do ext3 someone needs to tell RH real quick.

The real problem as I see it is that the ext3 modules aren't loadable by default. Not only do you need to have this in aliases and/or /etc/modprobe.d. but you also need depmod to create the depmod library so these can be loaded during startup.

This sounds like an interesting problem. I know how to get depmod etc in place. (did it for some other things) sounds like it's time to have fun, and work this one out.

the rpevious post explains why that isn't necessary: the script does it.

agreed that this is insane, and that they should be using fstab, but still, it works. I edited the script to add noatime for my ext2 partitions.