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2005-11-16 , 20:10
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Originally Posted by bhima
You can reformat the RS-MMC card under Linux quite easily. I gave myself two partitions, the first one standard FAT and the second one ext2. The 770 mounts the first partition normally, so it looks like I have a 2MB card. In xterm, I type "mount /dev/mmc<blah>p2 /sw" (or wherever you want to mount the second partition) and it's there. It's not actually that hard.
I second the comments indicating this would be really useful.

Does your comment about reformatting under Linux being easy extend to reformatting under WinXP?

And when I connect the 770 to my WinXP laptop, it sees the RS-MMC card as the E: drive. Is that where I would do the reformatting of the card? Or are you talking about executing this reformatting within the 770's environment?

Thanks for taking the time to explain to yet another crossover Linux newcomer.
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