which file system for sd card?

Thomas Franck thomas.franck at gmx.com
Sun Jan 25 13:19:12 CET 2009


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Hi..

> I bought a 2GB sd card which came formatted with FAT. Is this a good 
> option for the sd card or is it advisable to use another fs? I'm using 
> it for osm maps.

My experience: I had trouble with FAT and OSM maps.. it became read-only
after a while of updating tiles.. though, I admit that it could also be
the sdclk causing that (which I have not played around with).. anyway..
reformatting with ext3 solved that problem for me..

Cheers..
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Thomas

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