Thread: Formating card as EXT2/3 ?
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maacruz is offline maacruz
2009-04-03 , 15:04
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Originally Posted by pycage View Post
The latest OS 2008 has no problems with ext3. I formatted a memory card with ext3 and was able to use it on the tablet without having to load any driver modules manually. Automatic mounting / unmounting went fine, too.
There's really no reason to use FAT32 on your memory cards, unless you want to be able to read the card on non-Linux systems.
Of all filesystems that are around today, FAT is definitely one of the worst and most unreliable.
It may be mounting as ext2, unless you force it with "mount -t ext3"
For automount to work right, I had to modify linuxrc in initfs to change the order in which the filesystem modules are loaded, because the way busybox's mount works it was mounting ext3 as ext2.
For it to work right, line 10 of linuxrc should read:
FS_MOUDLES="mbcache jdb ext3 ext2"


Even did a bug report with patch included, which of course was ignored.
Last edited by maacruz; 2009-04-03 at 15:29.