Qi

[Joachim Ott]

2009/2/1 Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com>

> 2009/1/31 Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com>:
> > Ext3 is better IMO because it can soak up a lot of casual damage that
> > ext2 can't.  With my usage pattern I am randomly powering things off all
> > the time I appreciate how ext3 never makes any difficulty for me about
> > that.  Whereas after a day of it ext2 is on its knees.
>
> OK. You've convinced me.
>
> Is there a way of backing up /dev/mmcblk0p2, repartitioning the uSD
> with one partition, formatting it to ext3, and restoring the backup?
>
> Or is it quicker to wipe, repartition, format and install from scratch?


You can convert an ext2-fs to an ext3-fs rather easy. There are several
examples on the web, like this:
http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/ext2toext3.htm (boot the nand-system
and convert it from there).

And while you're on the converting trip: convert your obsolete mmcblk0p1
into a swap partition:

mkswap /dev/mmcblk0p1
swapon /dev/mmcblk0p1

For easiness, put it into your /etc/fstab on both nand and sd-card system:

/dev/mmcblk0p1  swap            swap    auto,pri=1              0  0
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/support/attachments/20090201/7978ec7b/attachment.htm