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2009-12-13
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@Quindor: I believe there are still some patent minefields related to any potential 3rd party implementation of exFat.
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2009-12-13
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I am a linux noob, but I will save this post, thanks a lot for your advice.
Just a question though, if format a microSD in NTFS, would the N900 recognise it?
Just a question though, if format a microSD in NTFS, would the N900 recognise it?
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2009-12-13
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Originally Posted by inzimam
No, the n900 assumes the microSD is formatted FAT, and will fail to automatically recognize/mount it on boot/insert. (For instance my microSD is ext3, I have to mount it manually in Xterm)
I am a linux noob, but I will save this post, thanks a lot for your advice.
Just a question though, if format a microSD in NTFS, would the N900 recognise it?
If you or someone else compiles the necessary kernel modules, you *may* be able to manually mount the microSD, but this is deeply in "at your own risk" territory.
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2009-12-22
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Originally Posted by go1dfish
go1fish,
No, the n900 assumes the microSD is formatted FAT, and will fail to automatically recognize/mount it on boot/insert. (For instance my microSD is ext3, I have to mount it manually in Xterm)
If you or someone else compiles the necessary kernel modules, you *may* be able to manually mount the microSD, but this is deeply in "at your own risk" territory.
You mentioned that you have an ext3 microSD card (I assume it's 100% ext3 and not a small fat partition and a large ext3 as is recommended by Easy Debian for automounting) that you have to mount manually in Xterm - can you tell us how you go about mounting it in Xterm? Have you noticed any other inconveniences besides the mounting not being automatic? Have you tried to automate this process in anyway? I know in regular linux you have some init scripts in which you can systematically put such a mount command but I'm not so familiar with the Maemo flavored linux...
Thanks
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2009-12-22
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mount -t ext3 /dev/mmcblk1p1 /media/mmc1 or something like that. There are init scripts in /etc/init.d, not sure exactly how they work and don't have a device to test on.
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2009-12-22
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Originally Posted by go1dfish
Pure speculation, but wouldn't modifying /etc/fstab accordingly help the N900 to automatically recognize/mount the drive as ntfs?
No, the n900 assumes the microSD is formatted FAT, and will fail to automatically recognize/mount it on boot/insert. (For instance my microSD is ext3, I have to mount it manually in Xterm)
If you or someone else compiles the necessary kernel modules, you *may* be able to manually mount the microSD, but this is deeply in "at your own risk" territory.
something like replacing this line:
Code:
/dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs vfat noauto,nodev/noexec,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime,utf8,uid=2999,shortname=mixed,dmask=000,fmask=0133,rodir 0 0
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/dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs ntfs-3g noauto,nodev/noexec,nosuid,noatime,nodiratime,utf8,uid=2999,shortname=mixed,dmask=000,fmask=0133,rodir 0 0
- I don't know enough about ntfs-3g to know which flags it can except
- It is not recommended that you try this directly on your N900 (or at all).
- If you are crazy enough to try this, backup all of your data.
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2009-12-22
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Originally Posted by AloxeCorton
Mine is ext2 and I use:
go1fish,
You mentioned that you have an ext3 microSD card (I assume it's 100% ext3 and not a small fat partition and a large ext3 as is recommended by Easy Debian for automounting) that you have to mount manually in Xterm - can you tell us how you go about mounting it in Xterm? Have you noticed any other inconveniences besides the mounting not being automatic? Have you tried to automate this process in anyway?
mount -t ext2 -o noatime,nodiratime /dev/mmcblk1p1 /media/mmc
The noatime,nodiratime is to reduce wearing out the SD card. I have been mounting it by hand in the xterm. I reboot so seldom that I haven't got around to automating yet.
The annoyance is that the file tracker ignores it when it isn't automatically mounted, so the tracker has to be restarted after the SD card is mounted.
Just substitute ext3 for ext2.
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2009-12-23
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Originally Posted by AloxeCorton
go1fish,
You mentioned that you have an ext3 microSD card (I assume it's 100% ext3 and not a small fat partition and a large ext3 as is recommended by Easy Debian for automounting) that you have to mount manually in Xterm - can you tell us how you go about mounting it in Xterm? Have you noticed any other inconveniences besides the mounting not being automatic? Have you tried to automate this process in anyway? I know in regular linux you have some init scripts in which you can systematically put such a mount command but I'm not so familiar with the Maemo flavored linux...
Thanks
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I only use the ext3 partition for my chroot, and the easy debian scripts handle the mounting for me whenever I try to do something with the chroot.
Normally you would be able to edit fstab to make the thing automount to, but as I understand it fstab gets regenerated at boot.
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2009-12-23
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Originally Posted by go1dfish
That's disappointing.
I
Normally you would be able to edit fstab to make the thing automount to, but as I understand it fstab gets regenerated at boot.
The timestamp on my /etc/fstab is 1999-12-31. If I do TZ=UTC,
it is 2000-01-01. hosts and hostname are the same, so I guess that they get clobbered^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hregenerated at boot as well.
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2010-05-15
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It's not a good idea to use ext2/3 or ntfs on a flash drive.
Instead use JFFS2.
This filesystem is designed for flash drives and prolongs the service life of the flash drive by using some sort of software wear leveling.
The 256 MB partition on a N8x0 device is using JFFS2 by default.
So the kernel on the device should be able to read the filesystem out of the box.
Instead use JFFS2.
This filesystem is designed for flash drives and prolongs the service life of the flash drive by using some sort of software wear leveling.
The 256 MB partition on a N8x0 device is using JFFS2 by default.
So the kernel on the device should be able to read the filesystem out of the box.