On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:49:53 Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote:
> The n810 comes with the internal flash (/media/mmc2) formatted as FAT32. It
> came with two directories (Video and map) and one file .apt-archive-cache.
>
> 1. Will reflashing OS2008 with:
>
> ./flasher-3.0 -F RX-44_2008SE_1.2007.42-18_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f
> -R
>
> reinitialize the internal flash?
I don't think so.
> 2. If so, how do I prevent it from doing so?
> If not, how do I recover the default contents if I want to?
I copied them off the device (I created a tar file on a memory card in the
external slot and then copied the tar file off and saved it on my desktop
system).
> 3. Does anything in the standard software rely on the fact that the
> internal flash have a single partition formatted as FAT32? Can I safely
> repartition and reformat (as ext{2,3})? Can I put a swap partition on the
> internal flash?
What I did was repartition the internal card, leaving the first partition as
FAT32. In my case I created two additional ext2 partitions but you can do
anything you like with the rest of the space. I used the built in utility to
create a swap file on the FAT32 partition.
> 4. In noticed that the default /etc/fstab has an entry for the internal
> flash (as /media/mmc1) that is hardwired for vfat with a whole lot of
> options. Is any of that crucial? Can I remove/change that entry if I
> reformat/repartition?
I left it there. The GUI sees the (now smaller) vfat partition as
the "internal memory card". I have added /etc/fstab entries as needed for my
extra partitions.
By the way, I have done the same sort of thing with the external memory card I
use in the device: I have setup the first partition as VFAT, so the device
can access it as normal, and I have other partitions for other purposes which
I mount as necessary.
Graham
