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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: VirtusRex on February 19, 2007, 12:23:08 pm
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Hello all,
I’m having a bit of trouble partitioning my 2 GB SD Card. I can’t seem figure out how to do it.
Here’s what I’ve got an
ATP 2gb SD Card.
I’m trying to break it into two partitions, 1 GB FAT and the other 1 GB ext2
First off I do the following:
Fdisk /dev/mmcda1
Under fdisk I add two new partitions each 1 GB.
But Once I leave fdisk I don’t know what to do next.
I tried mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcda1/disc0/part1, but that doesn’t work.
Any ideas???
Thanks,
VirtusRex
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Maybe this will help, some of the stuff may be pretty old though.
https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Multip..._a_CF_/_SD_card (https://www.oesf.org/index.php?title=Multiple_partitions_on_a_CF_/_SD_card)
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Hello all,
I’m having a bit of trouble partitioning my 2 GB SD Card. I can’t seem figure out how to do it.
Here’s what I’ve got an
ATP 2gb SD Card.
I’m trying to break it into two partitions, 1 GB FAT and the other 1 GB ext2
First off I do the following:
Fdisk /dev/mmcda1
Under fdisk I add two new partitions each 1 GB.
But Once I leave fdisk I don’t know what to do next.
I tried mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcda1/disc0/part1, but that doesn’t work.
Any ideas???
Thanks,
VirtusRex
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What version of pdaxrom are you using?
Late
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In r121, I don't know for sure about other versions, but I think they're the same, you need to do mkfs.msdos /dev/mmcblk0p1, mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcblk0p2, etc.
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Hello all,
I’m having a bit of trouble partitioning my 2 GB SD Card. I can’t seem figure out how to do it.
Here’s what I’ve got an
ATP 2gb SD Card.
I’m trying to break it into two partitions, 1 GB FAT and the other 1 GB ext2
First off I do the following:
Fdisk /dev/mmcda1
Under fdisk I add two new partitions each 1 GB.
But Once I leave fdisk I don’t know what to do next.
I tried mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcda1/disc0/part1, but that doesn’t work.
Any ideas???
Thanks,
VirtusRex
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What version of pdaxrom are you using?
Late
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I'm using pdaXii13.
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I tried mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcda1/disc0/part1, but that doesn’t work.
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I believe you want
mkfs.vfat /dev/mmcda1
for the first partition, and
mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcda2
for the second.
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Just look in /dev and see what looks like SD partitions.
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ok, I did the following command:
fdisk /dev/mmcda1
under Fdisk I added two new partitions, and when I hit the P key I get the following:
/dev/mmcda1p1
/dev/mmcda1p2
Now when I try to mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcda1p1 or /dev/mmcdap1p2, I get the following message:
The Device apparently does not exists; did you specify it correctl?
I checked in the /dev directory, there are no mmcdap1p1 or mmcda1p2 files, only thing close is mmcda, mmmcda1, and mmcda2.
I'm really at a loss,
Thanks for the help so far guys,
VirtusRex
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ok, I did the following command:
fdisk /dev/mmcda1
under Fdisk I added two new partitions, and when I hit the P key I get the following:
/dev/mmcda1p1
/dev/mmcda1p2
Now when I try to mkfs.ext2 /dev/mmcda1p1 or /dev/mmcdap1p2, I get the following message:
The Device apparently does not exists; did you specify it correctl?
I checked in the /dev directory, there are no mmcdap1p1 or mmcda1p2 files, only thing close is mmcda, mmmcda1, and mmcda2.
I'm really at a loss,
Thanks for the help so far guys,
VirtusRex
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read Drake01's post above.
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ok, I did the following command:
fdisk /dev/mmcda1
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Shouldn't this be:
fdisk /dev/mmcda
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ok, I did the following command:
fdisk /dev/mmcda1
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Shouldn't this be:
fdisk /dev/mmcda
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Yes...
Late
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YES!!!
It's working. For some strange reason, I kept mounting my /mnt/card to /dev/mmcda1.
I tried fdisk /dev/mmcda instead of /dev/mmcda1 and it works!!
You guys rock and I really appreciate all the help.
Have a great day,
VirtusRex
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It's working. For some strange reason, I kept mounting my /mnt/card to /dev/mmcda1.
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You want to mount /mnt/card to /dev/mmcda1 which is the first partition of /dev/mmcda. But you don't want to partition a partition.
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It's working. For some strange reason, I kept mounting my /mnt/card to /dev/mmcda1.
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You want to mount /mnt/card to /dev/mmcda1 which is the first partition of /dev/mmcda. But you don't want to partition a partition.
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No, for some reason my system would mount /dev/mmcda1 to /mnt/card/. I assumed that mmcda1 was my main partition and I tried to partition it into two partitions, which didn't work.
I then tried fdisk /dev/mmcda which worked and I was able to create two partition and mount them.
Thanks again,
VirtusRex