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2009-03-26
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Not sure if anyone is still looking at this thread, but before I start a new thread, I'd thought I'd post here first.
I want to establish a 2gb fat partition on my new 4gb bootable internal sd so that it shows up when booted to sd as a 2gb internal storage. I have used Acronis to put a backed-up 2gb ext2 partition on the sd already. It is mmcblk0p1, but there is a 2gb unallocated block of space before it (i.e., to the left of it) when the card shows up in gparted.
I want to to make that 2gb of unallocated space show up as "internal sd" when booted to the ext2 partition. After trying several things to make this work, I settled on this:
1. Establish a 2gb Fat 32 partition using cfdisk.
2. Mount this partition as root (it won't let me do it otherwise) using:
This makes the 2gb fat partition show up as "Internal Memory," just as desired. **BUT**, it seems I cannot move files to this Internal Memory. I get a message saying "Unable to move selected folder." This is strange, since I'm trying to move a selected file TO a selected folder (namely the Internal Memory).
Anyone got any ideas???
I want to establish a 2gb fat partition on my new 4gb bootable internal sd so that it shows up when booted to sd as a 2gb internal storage. I have used Acronis to put a backed-up 2gb ext2 partition on the sd already. It is mmcblk0p1, but there is a 2gb unallocated block of space before it (i.e., to the left of it) when the card shows up in gparted.
I want to to make that 2gb of unallocated space show up as "internal sd" when booted to the ext2 partition. After trying several things to make this work, I settled on this:
1. Establish a 2gb Fat 32 partition using cfdisk.
2. Mount this partition as root (it won't let me do it otherwise) using:
Code:
mount -t msdos /dev/mmcblk0p2 /media/mmc2
Anyone got any ideas???
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2009-03-26
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Originally Posted by lm2
I think cfdisk already formatted the partition for you. But maybe it has been corrupted?
1. Establish a 2gb Fat 32 partition using cfdisk.
2. Mount this partition as root (it won't let me do it otherwise) using:
This makes the 2gb fat partition show up as "Internal Memory," just as desired. **BUT**, it seems I cannot move files to this Internal Memory. I get a message saying "Unable to move selected folder." This is strange, since I'm trying to move a selected file TO a selected folder (namely the Internal Memory).Code:mount -t msdos /dev/mmcblk0p2 /media/mmc2
Anyone got any ideas???
Could you use the file manager to format it again?
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2009-03-26
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Thanks for the response.
I used file manager to format the card. I then used Acronis to put the 2gb ext2 partition on the card. This made the remaining 2gb "unallocated." When putting the card back into the NIT (booted to flash), gparted shows that the ext2 partition's default mountpoint is /media/mmc2. What I need to do, I think, is remove this default mount point, establish a fat32 partition with the 2gb unallocated space, and establish a default /media/mmc2 mountpoint on the fat32 (if that makes sense). At that point, I can hope that the fat32 partition will act as normal "Internal Memory." But I can't figure out how to get to that point.
I used file manager to format the card. I then used Acronis to put the 2gb ext2 partition on the card. This made the remaining 2gb "unallocated." When putting the card back into the NIT (booted to flash), gparted shows that the ext2 partition's default mountpoint is /media/mmc2. What I need to do, I think, is remove this default mount point, establish a fat32 partition with the 2gb unallocated space, and establish a default /media/mmc2 mountpoint on the fat32 (if that makes sense). At that point, I can hope that the fat32 partition will act as normal "Internal Memory." But I can't figure out how to get to that point.
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2009-03-26
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Originally Posted by slick204
First off, you need TrueImage 11 or later.
Sorry to dig this up but... I recently picked up True Image Personal 10.0. I'm trying to backup my cloned SD card. TI sees the card but when I run backup, I get an Operation Failed error with no details. I asked on Acronis forums but this is what I got:
"Thank you for your interesting in Acronis True Image
SD cards are treated as removable media, Acronis True Image can’t backup it. You can use removable media as storage device, so you can’t backup your applications from the phone."
They think the N800 is a phone. Oh well, any ideas what's going wrong from those of you that use TI?
Thanks!
I use it in XP, not Vista. I haven't done it in a while but here is what I remember I do:
I don't do a backup, I do a clone. And I usually (maybe always?) cloned to another SD card. I do it with two card readers, not with the NIT plugged in. If I recall correctly, you can clone from a big card to a much smaller card, especially if you're cloning just the system partition. The data partition, of course, you can just drag and drop to your hard drive under windows.
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2009-03-26
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Originally Posted by lm2
What I meant was to use the file manager of the IT after you have mounted the fat32 partition. I did not buy this utility because I am one of the guys who wants to know how to do things step-by-step. I'd partition the card using sfdik -M, mount the new card, and copy files over the newly created partitions all using the IT.
Thanks for the response.
I used file manager to format the card. I then used Acronis to put the 2gb ext2 partition on the card.
Two scripts of my cloning processes:
COPY flash TO MMC2 (boot from flash and after sfdisk the card, using ext2)
insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/mbcache.ko
insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/ext2.ko
mount -t jffs2 -o ro /dev/mtdblock4 /floppy
mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /opt
rm -rf /opt/*
tar cf - -C /floppy . | tar xvf - -C /opt
umount /opt
umount /floppy
shutdown -r now
COPY MMC2 TO MMC1 (boot from flash and after sfdisk the card, using ext2)
insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/mbcache.ko
insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/2.6.21-omap1/ext2.ko
mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /floppy
mount /dev/mmcblk1p2 /opt
rm -rf /opt/*
tar cf - -C /floppy . | tar xvf - -C /opt
umount /opt
umount /floppy
shutdown -r now
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2009-05-23
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Originally Posted by slick204
I got the TI 11. I use backup and restore. I backup the SD onto my winPC harddrive and restore onto another SD card. It works well, done it many times. GeraldKo's idea requiring 2 SD reader simultaneously. I have only one.
Sorry to dig this up but... I recently picked up True Image Personal 10.0. I'm trying to backup my cloned SD card. TI sees the card but when I run backup, I get an Operation Failed error with no details. I asked on Acronis forums but this is what I got:...
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Last edited by bunanson; 2009-05-23 at 15:17.
I don't think that ext filesytems were supported until TI 11. The current version is TI 2009 which would be TI 12.