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« on: February 19, 2007, 12:23:08 pm »
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,

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« Reply #1 on: February 19, 2007, 12:32:05 pm »
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
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« Reply #2 on: February 19, 2007, 12:34:49 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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« Reply #3 on: February 19, 2007, 12:53:21 pm »
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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« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2007, 01:26:45 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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I'm using pdaXii13.
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« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2007, 07:33:28 pm »
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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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« Reply #6 on: February 19, 2007, 08:47:09 pm »
Just look in /dev and see what looks like SD partitions.
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« Reply #7 on: February 19, 2007, 11:52:35 pm »
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,

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« Reply #8 on: February 20, 2007, 12:37:30 am »
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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,

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read Drake01's post above.
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« Reply #9 on: February 20, 2007, 04:14:00 am »
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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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« Reply #10 on: February 20, 2007, 09:43:55 am »
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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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« Reply #11 on: February 20, 2007, 10:14:33 am »
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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« Reply #12 on: February 20, 2007, 10:43:52 am »
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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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« Reply #13 on: February 20, 2007, 11:12:27 am »
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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,

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