I had a 512MB mmc... and I said I will get a 1GB mmc to hold my maps for maemo-mapper.... if the partition is under 512MB, the allocation unit size is 8KB, that means any file under 8KB will fill 8KB of space on the partition... if the partition is over 512MB the allocation unit size is 16KB. almost all the map tiles are under 8Kb and they will fill 16KB of space, so about same number of tiles will fit on my new and bigger mmc as the one I hade before...

%&*#^%)!!!

-i

so... what's stopping you from formatting it as ext3?
I'm pretty sure the 770 can read those.

seems like a good idea but does't work. I just did that and the nokia 770 will not mount that partition... so I'm stuck with fat16

That's strange. Mine mounts it Ok.

ext2? differnce between the two is journaling. If it won't do ext3, maybe it'll do ext2

until now I tried 2 partitions on the card, one ext3 for extended root fs (200MB), and one for the all other stuff - including maps (800MB). the second one was fat16 I tried to make it ext2 or ext3 but wont mount. I will try to make one BIG partition ext3 for extrootfs and the maps (800MB) and one small for fat16 (200MB).
I will let you know, but this scenario I suppose will work fine.
-i

I guess the bigger question here, should be how are you making the partitions? IN linux, with the 770 it'self, or in windows?

-c

I'm doing everything on the 770, I'm connected to 770 using ssh and I'm using:
/var/lib/install/sbin/cfdisk to create partitions
/var/lib/install/sbin/mkfs.ext3 to format them

ioan,

How are you trying to mount it? If you've replaced the single partition on the MMC card with an ext2/3 one then /etc/fstab will need to be modified to let the 770 know about the format change.

HTH,

Andrew

Hi Andrew,
I did not know that I have to modify the /etc/fstab ... can I make it to read a ntfs partition? <g>
I will try to explain what I want to do and the solution I have... at least for a while.
You saw that app that I made to download the maps for the maemo-mapper under windows and then transfer them to the 770's mmc. Fat16 for this is out of question because will not hold too many files...
First thing I did was to make one big (1GB) ext3 partition on mmc (used as extended root). I booted my windows pc in ubuntu, mounted the win hdd, transfered all the map images to the mmc... but the 770 wasn't able to read. I changed the user.group for all those files to 29999.29999 (if I remember right this was the user.group ubuntu showed as the owner for the files made by 770)... but the 770 still didn't read the files... (by the way, took me more to figure this out than to make the app. to download the maps lol). after lots of tries with no results ... I made an 800MB partition ext3 for extended root and the maps and a 200MB fat16. I copy a part of the maps on the fat16 partition, then from console I move them to the ext3 partition. I copy new ones to the fat16, and I move them... and so on and so forth.
If you (or anybody else) has a better idea on how to copy 130k files from a windows pc to the 770, I'm ready to try.

Thanks.
-ioan