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

From: Dave Neuer dave.neuer at pobox.com
Date: Mon Jun 19 18:22:21 EEST 2006
On 6/16/06, Heike C. Zimmerer <hcz at hczim.de> wrote:
> "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.

Hmm. Modprobe doesn't work (no modules.dep), depmod doesn't work (no
such file or directory /<some root path>/tmp), insmod doesn't work
(failed module dependancies). Know how I should go about loading a
module?

Dave

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