EMTEC Q120 - How to format in FAT32 ?

walter harms wharms at bfs.de
Mon Mar 16 10:24:03 UTC 2009



philippe.abrassart at belgacom.be schrieb:
> 
> 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>
> 
> --



Hi philippe,
if your are lucky your linux may support NFS, the you can import diskspace from any other linux system
by mount -tNFS <remote>:</diskspace> /mnt -o nolock,noatime
(remote=remote computer, /diskspace= directory on the remote box)
On the remote box you can compile and drop the resulting programm in to /diskspace but execute them on you
target. This helps to try out things.


re,
 wh








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