EMTEC Q120 - How to format in FAT32 ?

[philippe.abrassart at belgacom.be]

Hi Vladimir,


Many thx for your help.


My EMTEC Q120 is a simple HD with a "special" operation system  (Busybox) to build a multimedia appliance.  (able to read .avi, divX, etc ...)

I only have access to this box via a PUTTY session .... --> shell prompt.

The main commands are similar to Linux ... But not the structure  (ex: /etc/fstab seems not be used)
--> then not easy to understand how it works  (and I'm not a Linux guru)


Do you think it's possible  (and easy) to use or install Dosfstool  ?

If yes, have you got a method ? Or a URL ? ... Adapted to this busybox ?

I loaded the dosfstools_3.0.2.orig.tar.gz --> a few .c and .h files ...  ==> what do I have to do to be able to make  >mkfs.vfat /dev/<your-ntfs-partition>


Have a nice day
(and once again, many thx to help the others)

Philippe.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Dronnikov [mailto:dronnikov at gmail.com] 
Sent: 14 March 2009 19:34
To: ABRASSART Philippe (SCS/SDI)
Cc: busybox at busybox.net
Subject: Re: EMTEC Q120 - How to format in FAT32 ?

Hi!

> to change the NTFS rights from Read only to R/W.

If your appliance mounts NTFS by means of vanilla kernel module, there
are chances that the problem has no solution, since kernel module
provides for RO access only (RW access is still experimental and is
very limited).
But there exists ntfs-3g package (www.ntfs-3g.org), which contains
FUSE-based NTFS mounter. It mounts NTFS partitions RW and is stable
enough for production uses.

> But the most simple answer I received is to format again the NTFS part to FAT32.

It is reasonable. dosfstools
(http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/dosfstools/dosfstools_3.0.2.orig.tar.gz)
will help you.

>
> It's OK for me ... but how to do it ?

You build dosfstools and use mkfs.vfat /dev/<your-ntfs-partition>

--
Vladimir

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