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Software / Sfdisk Partitioning Question

« on: November 02, 2007, 05:37:48 am »

Okay guys, I have solved the problem myself.
I use fdisk -l output first to read the total size of the card,
then I calculate the data partition size by substracting the wanted swap partitoin size (here 200MB),
then I create the data partition and swap partition using sfdisk and the calculated data partition size.

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#!/bin/bash

SDSIZE=`fdisk -l /dev/mmcda | grep "Disk /dev/mmcda" | cut -f 3 -d " "`
SWAPSIZE=200
DATASIZE=$[$SDSIZE-$SWAPSIZE]


echo SD card size:            $SSIZE MB
echo Size for data partition: $DATASIZE MB
echo Size for swap partition: $SWAPSIZE MB

sfdisk /dev/mmcda -uM << EOF
,$DATASIZE,L,*
,,S,
;
EOF
Seems to work very well.

daniel

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« on: October 31, 2007, 06:59:13 pm »

This leather case is new, never used, in box.

Asking 20 Euro plus shipping (from Germany).

You can see this kind of leather case e.g. here:
http://www.visavis.jp/shop/WebObjects/vv.w...p?p=01714400300

Please respond via PM.

daniel

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Software / Sfdisk Partitioning Question

« on: October 31, 2007, 05:33:05 am »

Because most systems only mount the first partition of the SD card, so the data partition should be the first one in favor of maximum compatibility.

daniel

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Software / Sfdisk Partitioning Question

« on: October 30, 2007, 09:13:50 am »

Hello,

I need to partition SD cards from a shell script using sfdisk, but don't know how to to that in a safe way.

No matter what the size of the SD card is, I would like to create a 128MB SWAP partition at the END of the card (i.e. as the second partition /dev/mmcda2) and the remaining space at the beginning (/dev/mmcda1) needs to be linux ext2.

I have used something like

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sfdisk /dev/mmcda -uM << EOF
,128,S,
,,L,*
;
EOF
in order to achieve the opposite, i.e. 128MB swap as partition 1 and Linux ext2 as parition 2.

Any idea how to use sfdisk to achieve what I really need?
Thanks a lot!
Daniel

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Pdaxi13 : Safer Apm Suspend On Akita

« on: August 01, 2007, 05:38:05 am »

Isn't this dangerous when swap is heavily used?
I have heard and experiences myself that when unmounting a used swap, not all contents can be swapped back into memory and the system hangs.

daniel

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / What's With The Sound Quality?

« on: July 15, 2007, 04:00:32 pm »

hmm - kernel image? Isn't this simply a driver module which has to be replaced? Otherwise it might get quite complicated to add this to an existing setup.

Would such a Sharp ROM module work as well under pdaXrom? I hope so.
Please explain a bit how to set it up.

I am able to compile applications, but not modules or even an entire kernel currently.

Thanks a lot
daniel

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C1000/3x00 General discussions / What's With The Sound Quality?

« on: July 14, 2007, 04:34:03 pm »

If a basic commandline-based solution for pdaXrom would be available, that would already be great!
This could be used in conjunction with Xdialog as a GUI.
Please keep us informed!

daniel

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rxvt Won't Initialize

« on: July 13, 2007, 05:16:45 pm »

I also had this problem often in the past.

IIRC mounting devpts manually helped.

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mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
But I don't know why exactly this helped, and it also didn't always help.
Somehow the amount of available pseudo-ttys was exhausted, maybe becuase the pseudo-ttys didn't get released again after usage.

But this is all only a guess.
Does anyone have definitive information?

daniel
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thanks Daniel3000, that seemed to work.
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Great.
But why??  

daniel

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / "latest" Zgcc By Meanie Incompatible With Beta3?

« on: July 12, 2007, 08:08:49 am »

Just checked, there is no log in the ~/.notecase/ , only some .ini file. Also, echo returns 0

I think there's no crash

Anyway, i'm about packing it and will post a link for DL, and my /etc/profile changes, what i added for the dev. env.
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This is funny.
Using your notecase 1.5.8 package you just announced on the announcement
thread, I again get the crash.

Probably, if I give you my self-compiled notecase which causes the crash here, you won't get the crash either.

The funny thing is:
The only relevant part which I have changed from a system which did not produce that crash to the current state is that I installed your glib2 and glib2-devel package.


What does that tell us?

Do you have a clue how I can debug this problem?

Thanks!
daniel

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / Rxvt Won't Initialize

« on: July 12, 2007, 08:01:51 am »

I also had this problem often in the past.

IIRC mounting devpts manually helped.

Code: [Select]

mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
But I don't know why exactly this helped, and it also didn't always help.
Somehow the amount of available pseudo-ttys was exhausted, maybe becuase the pseudo-ttys didn't get released again after usage.

But this is all only a guess.
Does anyone have definitive information?

daniel

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / "latest" Zgcc By Meanie Incompatible With Beta3?

« on: July 12, 2007, 06:46:24 am »

Hi kkazakov,

that would be great, if you could package it up.

Re. notecase:
the crash is not obious.
It is just when quitting notecase (where the gnome_vfs_shutdown() function is called), and not visible on the console.
The only sign of it is that notecase generates a crash log file in ~/.notecase

Another sign is that "echo $?" directly after notecase execution returns 1, not 0.

Please recheck that on your setup, so we can be sure that you really have no crash.

Thank you!
daniel

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / "latest" Zgcc By Meanie Incompatible With Beta3?

« on: July 11, 2007, 01:42:57 pm »

Good idea, kkazakov... but I have not found a way to set the include paths yet. Have never fiddled around with them, so I have no idea where to search for them.

In /etc/profile there is nothing about it.
Also, in the Makefile of Notecase there is no include path to set...

Can anyone give a hint please?

Thank you!
daniel

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / "latest" Zgcc By Meanie Incompatible With Beta3?

« on: July 10, 2007, 06:51:58 am »

That's weird ... i use the custom compiled glib2 all the time without single program to complain. Maybe some other dependencies ? No idea ... anyway - i'm trying to stay as much as possible on the edge ... everything newer that do compiles, i use it.


P.P. Are you sure you used http://z.drun.net/packages/glib2-devel_2.12.4_armv5tel.ipk in order to compile ? or used the old header files ?
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hi kkazakov,

I compiled my own glib2 package (2.12.9) yesterday, but still the same problems.
Maybe really some other core package. But glib2 was the only one I have updated from beta3 so far. Maybe that's the problem. maybe I have to update more packages.

Re. the header files... well, Meanie's zgcc image contains glib header files (probably the old ones) and I installed your devel package, too.
So how can I make sure that the correct ones are used?

Thanks

daniel

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Zaurus - pdaXrom / "latest" Zgcc By Meanie Incompatible With Beta3?

« on: July 09, 2007, 01:10:42 pm »

Okay, I tracked down the problem.
It is not due to zgcc, but due to kkazakov's glib2 package.

If I replace the beta3 original glib2 package with kkazakov's glib2 package, I start to get these crashes on gnome_vfs_shutdown.
Probably I'll have to replace some more libs, but replacing gnome-vfs resulted in an even greater mess.

kkazakov, do you know an easy solution to that problem?

I'm now trying to compile glib 2.12.10 myself. Maybe this will help. We'll see when the compilation is finished (next week? ;-) )

daniel

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Accessories / 4gb "sd" Cards On Ebay

« on: July 08, 2007, 04:01:38 pm »

Hi guys,

on ebay I see a lot 4GB "SD" cards listed. They don't mention SDHC, nor do the images show SDHC logos on the listed cards.
Use the ebay search form and enter
SD 4GB -SDHC

Are these really non-SDHC cards?
Any experiences if they are compatible with the Zaurus' enhanced SD drivers (pdaXrom/Cacko)?

Thanks
daniel