Ok: "dd" is "device dump" that starts on block 0, sector 0 and produce a file - that in this case is unusable for anything. The command will work even if the file system has gone completely belly-up, and allow someone competent to fix it. Use the correct command, "tape archiving" may sound strange but here every file is copied, symbolic and hard links are managed. You may also compress the tar archive as it is produced. A special use of "dd" is "dd if=/dev/zero of /dev/hd..." This will wipe out everything, and place zero where there used to be data. Call it a quick format of a mounted device.
Originally Posted by knuthf Read the system documentation! Backup will back-up contacts, appointments, your settings and bookmark and a list of installed applications. This is held in a system directory, but can be linked to "MyDocs". This is NOT Windows. You should backup to your SD memory. Windows does not have user protection and does not have any "x" bit to indicate that a file is "executable" - e.g. as a shell script. So, if you use FAT32 on the /rootfs - there is no way anything here can start executing, so this is used where really nothing should be executable, so just keep the executable in a directory that is linked into the FAT32 file system. There is no way you can check, verify and repair the FAT. Please, read the documentation, and shoud you happen to know Windows and Microsoft, please understand that this was made to fix most of the problems that Microsoft skipped, and require more than a Sunday School course to muck around with. Scrap the wizards and try to understand because here things can be explained and they make sense - curses and wizards gets you nowhere.
Originally Posted by knuthf 1. The file system is "ext2" and not "ext3" - run fsck without assuming anything as long as you are not certain you want to kick a thing in place. 2. The files are <bo>not</bo> deleted, just moved to a directory $HOME/.Trash The Nokia File Manager does not allow you to see the .Trash directory, but mount it on another Linux device and tick of "Hidden fiiles" and pop comes the weasel. Well, of course you may do: Use the Terminal: > cd $HOME/.Tras* > ls -al | more > rm <whatever file you really want to remove/delete>