I have 2 issues i am struggling with in the past 3 days, i hope someone here can help me to solve.
The first is making USB networking work - no matter what i did i couldn't do that and it seems the SSH is the most important feature of this great application. i tried following the thread about USB networking, playing with th interfaces, but nothing. if someone has this working i'll be glad for a few tips - maybe something else needs to be installed (i'm using windows - is that a problem?)?
The second issue is trying to convert the opt partition to ext4.
since i am a windows user, i am trying to create an ext4 partition using a windows application called using "Minitool partition wizard" (because i wasn't able to boot without the opt partition - i get a crash, probably because of a few symlinks i made to save space on rootfs). I can create and format an ext4, but the next step which i believe i should do is use backupmenu to restore my opt backup to the new partition - can someone who's using ext4 opt partition post the "BackupMenu.item"? i tried to modify it myself but with the changes suggested in earlier posts backupmenu does not start at all...
The not starting backupmenu is installed in the opt partition. There are different ways to do this, maybe you can ...
... boot from a linux live-cd or install ubuntu into virtualbox (it has usb 2.0 support).
- boot the n900 into backupmenu and activate USB Mass Storage Mode.
- convert the opt partition from ext3 to ext4 without losing data with tune2fshttp://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/05/ext2-ext3-ext4/.
or
... boot into Backupmenu and go to root console (t).
- use parted ... print all and look for the partiton number, normaly /opt is mmcblk0p2.
- mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 to /tmp/mnt/optfs
- mount an ext3/4 partition (from sd?) to /tmp/mnt/sd
- copy -a * from .../optfs to .../sd
- format mmcblk0p2 with parted to ext4
- copy -a * back from .../sd to .../optfs
The not starting backupmenu is installed in the opt partition. There are different ways to do this, maybe you can ...
... boot from a linux live-cd or install ubuntu into virtualbox (it has usb 2.0 support).
- boot the n900 into backupmenu and activate USB Mass Storage Mode.
- convert the opt partition from ext3 to ext4 without losing data with tune2fshttp://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/05/ext2-ext3-ext4/.
or
... boot into Backupmenu and go to root console (t).
- use parted ... print all and look for the partiton number, normaly /opt is mmcblk0p2.
- mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 to /tmp/mnt/optfs
- mount an ext3/4 partition (from sd?) to /tmp/mnt/sd
- copy -a * from .../optfs to .../sd
- format mmcblk0p2 with parted to ext4
- copy -a * back from .../sd to .../optfs
I don't fully understand - why not using the method i used? the only issue/s with it is making backupmenu compatible for ext4 and changing the mount command in "rcS-late" - am i wrong?
By the way - did anyone try to use the reiser4 partition? it seems its performance improvement is quite impressive:
So, lets see. I dunno; I may come back and help a little again.
I've just grabbed all my old files, put together my n900 folder(fortunately most of my files were on my N900 so I didn't lose much when my HD got wiped). Also, I now have a N900 with a working USB port, so I can safely mess with things.
Anyway, I just grabbed the last copy I had, added libacl1 to the dependencies(just in case; there's a good reason I added it I'm sure), upped the version and uploaded it to devel.
Now, I've been out of the loop for many months; can one of you guys please give me a summary of what's happened, what changes I could make to improve, and what would help.
I can't say I'll be able to do everything - I now have a 40+hr a week job, and am only at my main computer on weekends - but I can help out a bit.
Also, I'm always in #maemo on Freenode, so...
I don't fully understand - why not using the method i used? the only issue/s with it is making backupmenu compatible for ext4 and changing the mount command in "rcS-late" - am i wrong?
I thought your problem was (after format of opt to ext4) a not anymore into backupmenu booting device, where you want to restore opt. These two ways get you around this.
I suggested backupmenu can handle ext4. But never tried.
Actually, that brings up a change you guys suggested but never got implemented: auto-ext4 support.
What's the best way to check the type of filesystem it is, considering the limits of my platform?
edit:
Oh, yeah. If any of you guys can get i2c-tools promoted to -testing, we can get BackupMenu in testing too.
