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Title: How To Use Sd Card As Root Or Home In Cacko 1.23?
Post by: Snappy on June 29, 2006, 06:00:07 am

How can I use SD card as root or home in Cacko 1.23?

I'm trying to see if its possible to mount my SD card as root or home in Cacko 1.23. Any ideas?

Formatting it as type 83 (linux) mounted as ext2 is now a mess and it cannot be automounted. So should I reformat it back to Fat16 and forget about ipkg install onto this sd card?

Ideas and comments?

Title: How To Use Sd Card As Root Or Home In Cacko 1.23?
Post by: daniel3000 on June 29, 2006, 07:31:29 am

I don't think it's easily possible to have a card for the root fs.
But as home it should be no problem.
Just format as ext2, create directories for every user and link them into /home

But be careful not to use software which needs files in home when the card is not inserted. This can lead to interesting effects.  

daniel

Title: How To Use Sd Card As Root Or Home In Cacko 1.23?
Post by: Snappy on June 29, 2006, 08:13:49 pm

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I don't think it's easily possible to have a card for the root fs.
But as home it should be no problem.
Just format as ext2, create directories for every user and link them into /home

But be careful not to use software which needs files in home when the card is not inserted. This can lead to interesting effects.   

daniel
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Thanks Daniel ... worth a try later ... though I still have the problem of not being able to automount an sd card formatted as ext2.

Anyway, I gave up and reformatted it back to fat16.

Title: How To Use Sd Card As Root Or Home In Cacko 1.23?
Post by: daniel3000 on June 30, 2006, 02:57:42 am

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I don't think it's easily possible to have a card for the root fs.
But as home it should be no problem.
Just format as ext2, create directories for every user and link them into /home

But be careful not to use software which needs files in home when the card is not inserted. This can lead to interesting effects.   

daniel
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Thanks Daniel ... worth a try later ... though I still have the problem of not being able to automount an sd card formatted as ext2.

Anyway, I gave up and reformatted it back to fat16.
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..and now it automounts again?

Strange - I have an ext2 SD card which nicely automounts.
Did you try Meanie's automounter package? I think it also has a new SD handler script.

daniel

Title: How To Use Sd Card As Root Or Home In Cacko 1.23?
Post by: Snappy on June 30, 2006, 03:03:01 am

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I don't think it's easily possible to have a card for the root fs.
But as home it should be no problem.
Just format as ext2, create directories for every user and link them into /home

But be careful not to use software which needs files in home when the card is not inserted. This can lead to interesting effects.   

daniel
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=133299\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Thanks Daniel ... worth a try later ... though I still have the problem of not being able to automount an sd card formatted as ext2.

Anyway, I gave up and reformatted it back to fat16.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=133423\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

..and now it automounts again?

Strange - I have an ext2 SD card which nicely automounts.
Did you try Meanie's automounter package? I think it also has a new SD handler script.

daniel
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=133454\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Yes, now it automounts ... didn't know about the automounter package.

Title: How To Use Sd Card As Root Or Home In Cacko 1.23?
Post by: uth on June 30, 2006, 10:09:09 am

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I don't think it's easily possible to have a card for the root fs.
But as home it should be no problem.
Just format as ext2, create directories for every user and link them into /home

But be careful not to use software which needs files in home when the card is not inserted. This can lead to interesting effects.   

daniel
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=133299\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Thanks Daniel ... worth a try later ... though I still have the problem of not being able to automount an sd card formatted as ext2.

Anyway, I gave up and reformatted it back to fat16.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=133423\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

..and now it automounts again?

Strange - I have an ext2 SD card which nicely automounts.
Did you try Meanie's automounter package? I think it also has a new SD handler script.

daniel
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=133454\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Could it be an ext3 vs ext2 issue?  

I have an ext2-formatted SD card, that also automounts in Cacko 1.23.   No additional automount packages installed.

Is there a reason you need to use ext3?   It seems that the journaling on ext3 might wear the card out faster since it's doing more writes.

Title: How To Use Sd Card As Root Or Home In Cacko 1.23?
Post by: CoreDump on June 30, 2006, 10:36:12 am

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I don't think it's easily possible to have a card for the root fs.
But as home it should be no problem.
Just format as ext2, create directories for every user and link them into /home

But be careful not to use software which needs files in home when the card is not inserted. This can lead to interesting effects.   

daniel
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=133299\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Thanks Daniel ... worth a try later ... though I still have the problem of not being able to automount an sd card formatted as ext2.

Anyway, I gave up and reformatted it back to fat16.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=133423\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

..and now it automounts again?

Strange - I have an ext2 SD card which nicely automounts.
Did you try Meanie's automounter package? I think it also has a new SD handler script.

daniel
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=133454\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

Could it be an ext3 vs ext2 issue?  

I have an ext2-formatted SD card, that also automounts in Cacko 1.23.   No additional automount packages installed.

Is there a reason you need to use ext3?   It seems that the journaling on ext3 might wear the card out faster since it's doing more writes.
[div align=\"right\"][a href=\"index.php?act=findpost&pid=133509\"][{POST_SNAPBACK}][/a][/div]

An ext3 card would mount perfectly fine as ext2 but automounters usually try to detect the used FS (which would be ext3 in this case) and try to mount that FS. If the ext3 module is not loaded / available it would fail.

A work-around would be to hardwire the card to ext2 (not auto).

Title: How To Use Sd Card As Root Or Home In Cacko 1.23?
Post by: Snappy on June 30, 2006, 10:31:45 pm

The sd card was formatted as type 82 (linux) ... and when manually mounted, identify as ext2. I've seen reformatted it as FAT16 (6) and it works fine.

I have another sd which I can try out or I may be getting another SD for storage and may want to try that out again.