Re: [iPAQ] Toshiba HDD question

* This one time, at band camp, Jukka Santala said:
> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Johan van Reijendam wrote:
> > If you have a Linux laptop then just plug it in and use linux fdisk to
> > make whatever partitions you need. That is whatI did.
> > You can then do a mkfs for each of the new partitions.
> > Once you have done that you can put it in your iPAQ.
>
> It's much easier to use the Familiar fdisk and other utilities, you don't
> even need to get a laptop with a PCMCIA port for that ;) "ipkg install
> fdisk", or strangely enough, util-linux? Creating the filesystems is bit
> trickier, and depends on what filesystems you want, but they should all be
> available for Familiar.
>
> However, the question was about whether you can safely re-partition the
> Toshiba HDD at all. I can't answer that. Has anybody done it with that
> specific model? (MK-5002MPL)
>

I read with terror the very same warning on my Tosh PCMCIA drive, but
took the chance anyway. Its had ext[23], vfat and now resier on it -
all quite happily.

Go for it!

Greeno

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