Thread: How to upgrade the internal memory by extending the root filesystem to a memory card
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Wolfram Ravenwolf is offline Wolfram Ravenwolf
2006-02-03 , 08:15
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Originally Posted by Xyzo
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?
Right! That's exactly the way it is. In the code posted above, the second line says ",64,6". "64" is the size in megabytes and "6" refers to the partition type FAT16. It becomes a VFAT filesystem once it's formatted with "mkfs.vfat".

Originally Posted by Xyzo
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?
The second partition should be of type 83. You should be able to change it without destroying the partition. If you don't want to risk anything, you won't have to change it if it's working anyways, though.
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