EMTEC Q120 - How to format in FAT32 ?

[philippe.abrassart at belgacom.be]

Hi Vladimir,


Here below the output of  >  fdisk -l

/ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               2           2        8032+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2               3          66      514080   83  Linux
/dev/hda3              67       91183   731897302+   5  Extended
/dev/hda4           91184       91199      128520   83  Linux
/dev/hda5              68          99      257040   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6             101         101        8032+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7             103       54702   438574500    b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda8           54704       91183   293025600    7  HPFS/NTFS
/ #


I don't understand why this is again NTFS .... After mkfs.ext2  ??


BUT ... I found a solution  (not THE solution, but a solution)  :-)

Indeed I tried to move some folders from my PC to the root of this partition, and it was Not OK due the read only access.
But I tried to create a folder, to change the accesses to this folder, and it's now possible to write on this partition. 
Of course only in this folder but it's ok for me  (this is to regulay backup my PC)


I created a  directory :

  1 drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         1024 Jul 15 00:41 BACKUP


I adapted the access rights :  (only possible via the PUTTY session (telnet))

/usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/hdd/volumes/HDD2 # ls -als
   1 drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         1024 Jul 15 00:45 .
   1 drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root         1024 Feb 11 17:43 ..
   1 drwxrwxrwx    3 root     root         1024 Jul 15 00:44 BACKUP

and now I can write what I want in this directory (called BACKUP)


I'm happy now  ;-))))


Many thanks for your support Vladimir ....

May be this mail exchange will help other people with the same problematic.

Best regards,
Philippe.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Dronnikov [mailto:dronnikov at gmail.com] 
Sent: 16 March 2009 21:08
To: ABRASSART Philippe (SCS/SDI)
Cc: busybox at busybox.net
Subject: Re: EMTEC Q120 - How to format in FAT32 ?

>
> About the >uname command ---> I did a few basic commands, to help your understanding --> see the .htm attach
>

So your platform is mips...

>
> About the Linux box --> I don't have it ==> I can start on a Ubuntu live CD  (I have it)
>

We have to cross-compile for mips... I think it's end-way.
Haven't you thought about extracting the disk and formatting its
partition using your Linux box?

> Remark :
> - I did a mistake by doing a 'mkefs' --> was formated in ext2 --> still read only

You formatted /dev/hda8 with mke2fs, right?

> - I though it was "brokken" ... But it seems to still work as NTFS after a reboot ?????

What makes you certain? fdisk -l output?

--
Vladimir