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General Discussion / slow reformatting of 256MB SD to ext2

« on: April 01, 2004, 07:24:26 am »

Try sshing to your zaurus.  And run: \"umount /dev/mmcda1\"
 \"fdisk /dev/mmcda\" 
Delete all the partons on the sd and create new ones.  The default under linux fdisk is to create a linux natve partion. 
now run \"mke2fs /dev/mmcda1\".  And change you \"/etc/fstab\" entery for your sd card so that it mounts ext2.  Then run \"mount /dev/mmcda1\".

JP

Thanks JP, I did all that. As I said the instructions are very good. And I have had sucess in the past with a 128MB SD card. But this 256 SanDisk card seems like it has a permenant parittion table. Using Fdisk to delete all the partitions (there is only 1) and the adding my own, using \'w\' to write the paritition table, all looks like it works. But re-reading the partition table with fdisk -l /dev/mmcda shows the old (original) partition table again.

Does anyone have a different brand of 256MB SD card that works with ext2? I\'d gladly return this one, and buy that one.

TIA,

Craig...

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General Discussion / slow reformatting of 256MB SD to ext2

« on: March 31, 2004, 10:18:25 pm »

Step by step if you need it:

http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...20for%20newbies

Si

Nice Steps for ext2 formatting. But they don\'t work on my brand new SanDisk 256MB SD card (AR0401RF). I have sucessfull done this a while ago on a 128 MB SanDisk SD card. But this card seems to have a non-changable partition table. Using fdisk to change the partition table (to linux partition type) and then rebooting the zaurus (I am doing this all from the zaurus 5500, since it is the only machine I have with a SD slot), running fdisk -l /dev/mmcda and the old VFAT partition table is back!

Anyone see this kind of problem. Did I buy the wrong SD (manufacturer) card?

TIA

Craig...