Hi,

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Andy Valencia<ajv-695-691-0...@vsta.org> wrote:
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> [mipsbook-devel-requ...@linuxtogo.org writes:]
>
>> Now the problem is to find a filesystem that has both an mkfs
>> available from skytone/debian and is supproted by the skytone kernel.
>
> I mkfs'ed an ext3 on my regular Ubuntu system, and it mounted fine
> on my Alpha 400.  The only catch was, I think it was, inode size.
> My Ubuntu system defaulted to 256, and the older kernel on the Alpha
> could only handle 128.  Once I overrode that, I had nice ext3 storage
> on my SD card on the notebook.  I then put a Debian chroot environment
> on the card, and ignore the old cruft on the base netbook storage.
>
> The GUI environment seems flaky about when it decides to mount up
> inserted storage.  It can take a while, or sometimes I would pop out the
> card and then reinsert it.  I now run non-GUI and under the CLI it's
> trivial to make it happen.


Oh, thank you. ext2 is not supprted, ext3 is! To set inodeszie i used
the option -I 128

thanks,
 Riccardo

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