Re: Access compact flash, in ipaq sleeve, from opie?

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2.a.t.infradead.org>
Date: Sat Jun 15 2002 - 04:13:20 EDT

spiralman@softhome.net said:
> point 1: if your cf card comes unformated (**very** unlikely), then
> you need to use fdisk or cfdisk to create at least one partition, and
> then mkext2, or mkvfat (those might have slightly different names) to
> format the partition.

You don't need to create a partition. If you want it to remain compatible
with Windows boxen, you might want to - but if you're putting an ext2
file system on it you might as well use the whole drive, rather than
wasting space on partitioning it.

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dwmw2
Received on Sat Jun 15 08:13:27 2002

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