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Title: 2 Partitions On Cf Card ?
Post by: ArchiMark on July 04, 2005, 12:28:30 pm

Hope someone can please advise...

Been trying to use my C3000/Cacko3Kb1.23 to get a 128MB CF card partitioned into 2 partitions. One 'FAT partition' and one 'ext2 partition'.

I need to do this so I can install Linux on my Jornada 720 I just got...  

I used 'fdisk' to partition CF card into 2 partitions and set type of each.

One partition got labeled '/dev/hda1p1' and the other '/dev/hda1p2'.

However, now in Console, I see '/dev/hda1/ mounted as follows:

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Filesystem       1k-blocks       Used      Available     Use%    Mounted on
/dev/hda1        125174         3000      122174        2           /usr/mnt.rom/cf

After using 'fdisk' as per above, I thought I needed to format each partition, right?
Using:

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#mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda1p1
#mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hda1p2
However, when I tried using these commands, I got error message:

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mkfs: command not found

Could someone please advise how to get this working properly??

Also, do I need to revise 'fstab' file too??

Thanks for any help.

Mark

Title: 2 Partitions On Cf Card ?
Post by: ArchiMark on July 04, 2005, 02:43:23 pm

Well, did some searching on forums....found what I think it the answer....

http://www.zaurususergroup.org/modules.php...%2F%20SD%20card (http://www.zaurususergroup.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=Multiple%20partitions%20on%20a%20CF%20%2F%20SD%20card)

In midst of trying out the instructions....will report back later....  

Mark

Title: 2 Partitions On Cf Card ?
Post by: ArchiMark on July 04, 2005, 04:26:32 pm

OK, made some progress using those instructions...but now only one of the partitions, hda1 (vfat) is recognized, not hda2 (ext2)....  

Did everything per instructions including editing 'fstab' and '/etc/pcmcia/ide.opts' files and then rebooted.....

I tried to mount hda2 manually but got

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#mount /mnt/cf2
Mount: Mounting /dev/hda2 on /mnt/cf2 failed: Invalid argument
#mount
.....
/dev/hda1 on /usr.rom/cf type vfat (rw, noatime)
#df -k
.....
/dev/hda1 7796 0 7796 0% /usr/mnt.rom/cf
Any ideas as to why I can't see or mount hda2 partition???

Would really appreciate some help!

Thanks,

Mark

Title: 2 Partitions On Cf Card ?
Post by: ArchiMark on July 04, 2005, 04:52:29 pm

Just wondering if someone knows when instructions says to edit the '/etc/pcmcia/ide.opts' file and shows the text to use, do they mean to

1) delete whatever text was in file before and just insert what is shown

or

2)  do they mean to add the text shown to the existing file?

Thanks for any input.

Mark

Title: 2 Partitions On Cf Card ?
Post by: lardman on July 04, 2005, 06:57:00 pm

I think find the appropriate part of your existing file and edit accordingly, if it would make your life easier post what you have atm here and I can tell you what to put back,

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However, when I tried using these commands, I got error message:

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mkfs: command not foundCould someone please advise how to get this working properly??

You found the correct commands? mkfs.ext2 - you might need to install another ipk to get them.

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Any ideas as to why I can't see or mount hda2 partition???

Is it listed in fstab? Is the partition type set correctly using fdisk?


Si

Title: 2 Partitions On Cf Card ?
Post by: ArchiMark on July 04, 2005, 07:14:51 pm

Thanks for your help, lardman!

Well, made some more progress, I think in the meantime...

I've found that if I manually mount 'hda2' then it works...

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mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/cf2
Don't understand why it won't auto-mount like it's supposed to do???

I did edit 'fstab' per the instructions....  

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/dev/hda1     /mnt/cf   auto   defaults,noauto,noatime,user,exec,suid   0 0
 /dev/hda2     /mnt/cf2  auto   defaults,noauto,noatime,user,exec,suid   0 0
And edited '/etc/pcmcia/ide.opts' to look like this:

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case "$ADDRESS" in
    *,*,*,1)
       DO_FSCK="y"
       DO_MOUNT="y"
      ;;
    *,*,*,2)
       DO_FSCK="y"
       DO_MOUNT="y"
      ;;
    *,*,*)
       PARTS="1 2"
       NO_CHECK=n
       NO_FUSER=n
      ;;
    esac
Any other suggestions???

Thanks!

Mark