[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Mount problem

[From: Heike C. Zimmerer]

"Dave Neuer" <dave.neuer at pobox.com> writes:

> Why would "sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/mmc1" fail w/ "no
> such device" from osso-xterm on IT2006 beta when 1) there's a
> mmcblk0p1 /dev node, 2) ls /sys/block/mmcblk0 shows the partition, and
> the partition is really ext3? I also tried w/ -t ext2.

You should load the ext3 module first. It is located below
/mnt/initfs/lib/modules.

BTW, ext3 isn't a good fs choice for flash memory, as every
sector gets written twice.  Better use ext2.


Heike