On 12/30/06, Nicola Larosa <nico at teknico.net> wrote: > [Let's keep the discussion on the mailing list, no personal reply. Also, > please don't top-post: replies should go *after* the replied-to text. > Finally, if you could avoid HTML emails, it would be perfect. :-) ] Odd this mailing list doesnt have a mail-to parameter to avoid personal mails > Kahlil Johnson wrote: > > How can I reformat it, I think I have done it before with fdisk but can > > u do me some steps to do this, I want to make a guide at the mameo wiki > > to document this issue/workaround. > > > > Thanks your help is appreciated. > > fdisk is used to repartition a block device, probably you don't need it. On > Linux, one uses the mkfs command to reformat a partition, choosing the vfat > type, in this case. > > I don't know whether the mkfs command is available on the 770, I > reformatted the card's first (and only) partition on my main computer. > > If you don't have Linux, you can reformat it on Windows and other systems > too, it's a standard FAT32 partition. I dont use windows, I'll give a try to mkfs, hope this works. Thanks. > > On 12/30/06, *Nicola Larosa* <nico at teknico.net > > <mailto:nico at teknico.net>> wrote: > > > > Kahlil Johnson wrote: > > > I have a problem where the MMC becomes a read-only filesystem after a > > > period of time this means that I can't write to the device. > > > > The Linux kernel remounts filesystems as read-only when there are > > errors > > using them. I had this happen recently, when the partition on the > > card got > > corrupted for some reason. Try reformatting it. > > > -- > Nicola Larosa - http://www.tekNico.net/ > > All we're asking is that you stop spreading misinformation about > the current state of dynamic languages to the press, analysts, and > your customers. This does not require you to champion or otherwise > support these technologies - just stop lying about them. > -- Ryan Tomayko to James Gosling, March 2006 > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > -- Kahlil Johnson "Ya tengo GMAIL!!"
