Fwd: Re: [maemo-users] mounting ext2

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On Fri, 2006-08-11 at 21:40, ext maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org wrote:
> Hi Kimmo,
> 
> thanks for sending a reply. I had a look at 
> /usr/sbin/mmc-mount
> and changed it from
> 
> mount -t vfat ...
> to 
> mount -t auto ...
> 
> It works as usual with vfat formated mmc's ;-)
> However, ext2 formated mmc's are still not accepted. Manual mount works (see 
> mail below)
> 
> So, if you have more ideas on this subject - let us know!

Try without the options (after -o), because some of the options might be
FAT-specific. There is no reason why it would not work if it works
manually... You just have to use the same command line in mmc-mount as
you use when manually mounting it.

BR; Kimmo

> 
> Regards Krischan
> 
> ----------  Weitergeleitete Nachricht  ----------
> 
> Subject: Re: [maemo-users] mounting ext2
> Date: Freitag, 11. August 2006 13:52
> From: Kimmo H?m?l?inen <kimmo.hamalainen at nokia.com>
> To: keitsch at cs.tu-berlin.de
> Cc: maemo-users at maemo.org
> 
> On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 21:30, ext maemo-users-bounces at maemo.org wrote:
> > Hello
> >
> > I formated a small rs-mmc with ext2 filesystem. I believe that it is much
> > more reliable than vfat which seems to be  a standard filesystem for mmc
> > (even on an linux powered device  -- very strange ;-).
> >
> > After loading the kernel module as root:
> >
> > insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.16-omap1/ext2.ko
> >
> > and mounting the mmc manually:
> >
> > mount /dev/mmcblk0 /media/mmc1
> >
> > it worked well. However I noticed that the n770 seems to expect vfat
> > formated mmc since it did not show the ext2 formated mmc in the build in
> > filemanager and complained about a corrupt mmc.
> > Question is: How can I convince n770 to also accept ext2 formated mmc as
> > well as vfat including support for swap file? There must be a tweak, eh?
> 
> You might try editing the command line in /usr/sbin/mmc-mount file. It
> currently assumes that the memory card is VFAT-formatted.
> 
> BR, Kimmo
> 
> > Regards Krischan
> 
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