Eero Tamminen wrote: > ext Peter Flynn wrote: [..] >>> Why should it have a problem with ownership when I'm installing as root? > VFAT is lacking many features of real file system. VFAT is used > on MMC/SD cards by default for PC i.e. Windows/OSX/etc compatibility > reasons. > > You need to use some other file system (it's a bit complicated, > is there a Wiki page on using other file systems on the MMC/SD > cards?). No, it worked fine, and I should have reported back. I took out the SD card, stuck it into my card reader on the desktop and formatted it as ext3 with a small granularity (I'm using it for TeX as well, and that has lots of very small files). Worked fine. >> and it doesn't appear to have written any files (maybe it wipes all >> traces if it aborts?) > > Dpkg must remove aborted installations, otherwise you would soon > run out of disk space on rootfs even for root (and as a result device > would be in reboot loop if you'd reboot it at that state). Very sensible... ///Peter _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
