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How to upgrade the internal memory by extending the root filesystem to a memory card
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Xyzo
2006-02-03 , 07:41
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Hi!
Thank you very much Wolfram for this step-by-step howto :-)
Yesterday I've received and configured my 1GB MMC-Mobile card: I think I've done it well as the system works but I'm not exactly sure whether what I've done at step 1 was right or not. See below.
I've used fdisk (on FC4) to partition the RSMMC card. Out of the box, it was shown as FAT16 by fdisk (type 6). In your tutorial, you mentioned VFAT: what does this exactly mean as I was not able to find it in supported formats by fdisk? Someone told me that formats specified by fdisk were just here for information, but the real partition type depends on what you use to format each partition: right? Well, I've removed the existing partition and created 2 brand new partitions using the original format (ie. FAT16). After this, the 1st partition (768MB, to be mounted on host when USB connecting the N770) has been formated using mkfs.vfat, and the 2nd partition (256MB, to be used for swap and extension of root filesystem) using mkfs.ext3: was all of this right? When I display the partition table using fdisk, the 2 partitions are still displayed as FAT16: should I simply ignore this?
TIA for your help!
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