Initially, i got mke2fs errors formatting the 16 GB SD card with ext3. So, i ran badblocks, which did not complain, but mke2fs also stopped complaining. e2fsck reported a clean bill of health. I'm thinking that running badblocks was a very good idea.

So now i've got ext3 on my new 16 GB, all my old stuff from my 2 GB and 128 MB cards have been copied to it, i've tested apps that depended on things being on the 128 MB card, and everything checks out. I've put ext3 on my 2 GB card, and it's happy too, though empty. No idea what to do with the 128 MB mini SD card.

15 GB free. This feels very weird. This device replaces my 8 MB Palm.

I'd like to mount the ext3 cards with 'noatime', which prevents it from updating the card all the time. I run this on my desktop. But i've not been able to create an fstab entry that works. Any ideas?