Re: [maemo-users] Re: MMC Filesystem becomes read-only after a while

2006-12-31 Thread Marius Gedminas
On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 04:21:24AM -0600, Kahlil Johnson wrote:
 If you don't have Linux, you can reformat it on Windows and other systems
 too, it's a standard FAT32 partition.
 
 I dont use windows,  I'll give a try to mkfs, hope this works. Thanks.

IIRC the File Manager on the 770 has a menu item for formatting the
memory card.

Alteratively you could connect the 770 it via USB, unmount the
filesystem if your distro mounts it automatically, and then run dosfsck
on it.

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[maemo-users] Re: MMC Filesystem becomes read-only after a while

2006-12-30 Thread Nicola Larosa
Kahlil Johnson wrote:
 I have a problem where the MMC becomes a read-only filesystem after a
 period of time this means that I can't write to the device.

The Linux kernel remounts filesystems as read-only when there are errors
using them. I had this happen recently, when the partition on the card got
corrupted for some reason. Try reformatting it.


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Re: [maemo-users] Re: MMC Filesystem becomes read-only after a while

2006-12-30 Thread Nicola Larosa
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Kahlil Johnson wrote:
 How can I reformat it, I think I have done it before with fdisk but can
 u do me some steps to do this, I want to make a guide at the mameo wiki
 to document this issue/workaround.
 
 Thanks your help is appreciated.

fdisk is used to repartition a block device, probably you don't need it. On
Linux, one uses the mkfs command to reformat a partition, choosing the vfat
type, in this case.

I don't know whether the mkfs command is available on the 770, I
reformatted the card's first (and only) partition on my main computer.

If you don't have Linux, you can reformat it on Windows and other systems
too, it's a standard FAT32 partition.


 On 12/30/06, *Nicola Larosa* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
 Kahlil Johnson wrote:
  I have a problem where the MMC becomes a read-only filesystem after a
  period of time this means that I can't write to the device.
 
 The Linux kernel remounts filesystems as read-only when there are
 errors
 using them. I had this happen recently, when the partition on the
 card got
 corrupted for some reason. Try reformatting it.


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the current state of dynamic languages to the press, analysts, and
your customers. This does not require you to champion or otherwise
support these technologies - just stop lying about them.
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