On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 13:45 +0200, ext sebastian maemo wrote: > Hi friends, > > I'm trying to solve a little problem with my 770: > > My MMC has got corrupted, and I need to format it again. > > But the situations is this: > > My MMC has two partitions: > > /dev/mmcblk0p1 --- type vfat > /dev/mmcblk0p2 --- type ext2 (root file system) > > The Ext2 partition is OK, since I've already checked it. The problem > is with the FAT partition. > > I cannot format the FAT partition, because I have Extended Virtual > Memory (64MB) working on it, and the Control Panel doesn't allow me to > disable this option. > So that I cannot unmount the FAT partition, and so I cannot format it > again. > > I've tried to disable the Extended Virtual Memory option booting from > Flash but it doesn't allow me to do it. > I have booted without MMC and EVM is disabled, but as soon as I put > the MMC in it is enabled again. > > My last option would be to format the whole MMC erasing the existing > partitions and starting the whole process from the very beginning. > But the system works pretty well and I wouldn't like to do that. > > My hope is that there's a way to force the system to disable the > Extended Virtual Memory, and then unmount the FAT partition, and > format it again. (I have gconf editor installed). > > Could someone please suggest me any solution? Yeah, you need to do it as root: swapoff /media/mmc2/.swapfile (double-check the path from /proc/swaps) mkdosfs /dev/mmcblkNp1 (where N is either 0 or 1 --- check from 'mount' output) -Kimmo > > -- > Salut, > Sebas _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
