On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 12:10:49PM -0400, Kevin T. Neely wrote: > On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 01:52:10PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: > > I'm now trying to see if I can find a safe partition size that I can use > > without losing my data. > > > > I initially thought this might be related to > > https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2802 > > It seems like the tablets are plagued by similar -but not necessarily > the same- issue. I had something similar happen with my 770 a while > back, and I've seen other posts to this list the gist of which, at > least, is basically the same. > > Were you writing data from your pc to the tablet's memory card via USB > when this happened, or downloading via network?
Via USB. Also locally in an ssh session. Also, locally on the tablet
itself, with no USB or network traffic.
> In my case, it was while downloading an album or two worth of mp3
> files. After being mounted read-only, the tablet rebooted. I put
> the card in my laptop, copied the data, and reformatted the card. I
> haven't had any problems since, but I do worry about it.
>
> As a side note, what would the proper way to format and prepare these
> cards be?
I should think the built-in File Manager ought to do the right thing.
> Especially if one has used the card in a different system
> (a phone or mp3 player) and want to make it more maemo tablet
> friendly.
Maemo is Linux. I'm sure it's not picky.
Marius Gedminas
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