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joegoose

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« on: March 06, 2006, 11:50:59 am »
I have a C1000 and have recently purchased a 4gb Hitachi Microdrive (3.81 available)

I am using it in under Qtopia 1.5.4 as supplied by Figlabs.

Initially I was able to see the drive in File Manager, and copy files to it but not save them directly from the Hancom applications (I checked it was 777)

Then I changed the partition table to 2 x 1.91GB drives.

When I put the CF card in the Zaurus, it mounted the first partition which worked wonderfully in Qtopia (including Hancom) but I could neither mount nor see the second partition.

I am happy with having the drive split, but would appreciate help on how to recognise the second partition.

Incidentally, I am also a victim of the 2GB SD limit, and I am thinking of partitioning this card to 1.9 + 0.1. so info on mounting the second partition of that would also be useful

Bless you all,

JB
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« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2006, 01:44:51 pm »
Make sure you have the second partition in the fstab.  Also make sure you have a mount point made in the /mnt folder.  Basically just copy what the fstab has for the drive, I think it shows as /dev/hda1, so make a /dev/hda2, and make a directory in /mnt as /mnt/hda2.  This is all off the top of my head, so I'm not 100% sure, but this should point you in the right direction.
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« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2006, 02:22:31 pm »
many thanks, I will test this and let you know

Jonathan
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« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2006, 02:46:15 pm »
I tried to do this,

basically the entries in /mnt are just links to files in /usr/mnt.rom,

I cannot add a cf2 directory as it is telling me it is a read-only file system and it iwll not let me chmod

help

thanks
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« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2006, 04:15:31 pm »
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I tried to do this,

basically the entries in /mnt are just links to files in /usr/mnt.rom,

I cannot add a cf2 directory as it is telling me it is a read-only file system and it iwll not let me chmod

help

thanks
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That's wierd, I put a /mnt/usbstorage on mine.  Maybe remount root as read write?
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« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2006, 04:50:00 pm »
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I tried to do this,

basically the entries in /mnt are just links to files in /usr/mnt.rom,

I cannot add a cf2 directory as it is telling me it is a read-only file system and it iwll not let me chmod

help

thanks
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That's wierd, I put a /mnt/usbstorage on mine.  Maybe remount root as read write?
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I would need to be walked through how to do that, as I am not so au fait with Linux
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