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Can't seem to update Rockbox e260 (not R), Linux [solved]

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bluebrother:
When running as user you can't fix the filesystem -- users don't have permission to modify the filesystem directly, at least on standard setups. Furthermore, please read the output carefully. It says "not automatically fixing this", and you've used the -a option to automatically fix issues. You might want to use the -r option to interactively fix issues.

Also. please read the manpage. It contains all necessary information and I'm not motivated reading it to you.

mmmmna:
Ok, chill a bit while I explain my 'stupidity'.

1] It was not clear that I had a broken filesystem because it also wasn't clear that I had actually mounted a filesystem. For some reason, I felt I was not dealing with an external Flash drive. My error; had I been thinking of this as a drive all along, I might have done things differently. Maybe this helps you see some detail of why I went wrong: It just feels wrong to think of this e260 as a Flash drive because it hosts (and runs) an operating environment, it attaches with a cable AND it has a screen - just not things I personally see on my other 8 Flash drives. You probably can't tell, but I'm not normally a total idiot in Linux (been using Linux since 1999, started at Mandrake 7.1). I have some good moments too.

After you posted this, I managed to wreck the partition when I used fsck.vfat as root. Original frimware wasn't booting, just an error message about no partition. I knew you had pretty much had enough of this thread (sorry), and since I didn't want to try to run any more fsck tools, I booted into Recovery mode, dropped in an newer .mi4, restarted the e260; I then had an error refreshing the database. Went back into recovery mode, then touched a sansa.fmt, restarted the e260, original firmware looked good so I went into XP64, updated the firmware, then ran the Windows Rockbox updater to finish the ordeal with a fresh install.

I'm at 3.3, thanks for the development and tech support!

2] Why did I not go into Windows from the start? I have XP64. Lots of COMMERCIAL software won't work with XP64 and most device drivers HATE XP64 so I've learned from personal experience that XP64 is much worse than an ancient Linux distro. So when someone says 'use Windows' and I have only poor experiences through XP64, I therefore tend to continue in Linux.

It's not much, but it is truth.

Thx, bluebrother.

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