Thread: eMMC & micro SD flash card
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2010-10-13 , 20:16
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Originally Posted by spanner View Post
So being a Linux-only kind of chap, I went through the process of re-formatting my MicroSD as ext3 and having the N900 mount it automatically. I forget the thread but with a bit of tweaking it's possible.
Not that I have spent a lot of time on it, but I have never got mine to mount automatically on boot.

Originally Posted by spanner View Post
Performance seemed better and it was nice being able to store symlinks & files larger than 4 GB.
I also got an additional 500MB free space on a "8GB" card when I dumped its contents, reformatted to ext2, and restored contents.

Originally Posted by spanner View Post
But I could not find a way of solving the UID/GID permissions problems. The N900 user has one UID, my desktop has a different one, files & directories do not always have universal read/write access and I don't want to permanently change my umask on either N900 or Desktop PC. I also don't want to manually change permissions of everything I copy back & forward.

So until there is a filesystem flag to ignore ownership, I'm back to crap old FAT32 for my Linux-to-Linux transfers .
I use scp to transfer, but sshfs should do what you want. I haven't messed with sshfs in a long while, and never used it much, so I don't remember all the details.
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