Originally Posted by Radicalz38

BTW... unless this code in genfstab.awk is commented/edited it should remount /home perfectly...


So if your sure that you haven't messed up your genfstab.awk go with the fdisk step by step at the top post.

Originally Posted by Radicalz38

Ok... So nokia made that one T_T their weird...
Anyways I could assure you 80% success chance if you go with the fdisk tutorial.
















For that to work or not depends on your genfstab.awk
Cause the situation is... if N900 doesn't see any /home partition it would reboot.

And what genfstab.awk does here is

if /dev/mmcblk0p2 is formatted as Linux partition(83) and there's no /home mounted it would add "/dev/mmcblk0p2 /home ext3 noatime, rw,etc.. 0 0" to your fstab and that should make your n900 boot properly.

Originally Posted by michaaa62

please look above your message for a howto

Edit man i think slower than you type

Originally Posted by michaaa62

Unmount MyDocs for safeties sake

Code:

Umount /home/user/MyDocs

Make the second partition to contain a fresh file system

Code:

mkfs.ext3 -L home /dev/mmcblk0p2

Mount the new filesystem

Code:

mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt

Copy the content of /home

Code:

cp -a /home /mnt

Unmount the new partition after the copying is done

Code:

umount /mnt

Create a new partition table with this command (everything in this box is just one command)

Code:

echo "unit: sectors
> /dev/mmcblk0p1 : start= 64, size= 56631296, Id= c
> /dev/mmcblk0p2 : start= 56631360, size= 4194304, Id=83
> /dev/mmcblk0p3 : start= 60825664, size= 1572864, Id=82
> /dev/mmcblk0p4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0" > table

Write the new partition table to the device

Code:

sfdisk --no-reread /dev/mmcblk0 < table

Now reboot the phone

After the next start make a fresh file system for MyDocs

Code:

umount MyDocs
mkfs.vfat -F32 -s64 -n MyDocs /dev/mmcblk0p1

Mount MyDocs

Code:

mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /home/user/MyDocs

If errors occur please post the full message, don't panic, may be the Nokia folks did some extra tweak which have to get reverted also.

And what genfstab.awk does here is
Quote:start == 1 && $6 == 83 && !__home {
printf "%s /home ext3 %s 0 0\n", $1, home_opts
printf "/home/opt /opt none bind\n"
__home++
}

if /dev/mmcblk0p2 is formatted as Linux partition(83) and there's no /home mounted it would add "/dev/mmcblk0p2 /home ext3 noatime, rw,etc.. 0 0" to your fstab and that should make your n900 boot properly.

Originally Posted by michaaa62

It is said already

Edit No need for fdisk here, just use the commands as root.
Edit2: Regarding the unmount error. Totally fine, as there is no MyDocs on your device, which i wanted to make sure again.

Originally Posted by michaaa62

It is said already

Edit No need for fdisk here, just use the commands as root.
Edit2: Regarding the unmount error. Totally fine, as there is no MyDocs on your device, which i wanted to make sure again.