Fuze partition layout questions

[hilbert]

Wow, I just compiled and tested the latest Rockbox release on my FuzeV2, its great!
Thanks a lot guys! You rock!

From the little testing I have done (just installed it like 30min ago) I can confirm the freeze during FM Radio Autoscan. Other than that, its working great.

Quick question: My FuzeV2 came from the factory with the partition table all messed up, as most usb sticks and such tend to do. So I used cfdisk to create one single partition /dev/sdd1 then formatted it as fat32. Problem is that the OF for some reason does not recognize the new partition, any files copied to the FuzeV2 would not show up in "Folder Navigation".

Then I used the voice recorder a couple of times, creating files that were shown by the OF, but mounting the FuzeV2 as /dev/sdd1 again showed nothing but the files I already had copied (and that the OF did not show). It was like two versions of the filesystem were coexisting, one seen by mounting in linux, the other by the OF.

So I formatted it again, this time from inside the OF itself. Now everything works, I can record files using the OF and copy them to my PC and viceversa. But the partition table now looks like this:

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hilbert@desk > sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdd

Disk /dev/sdd: 7916 MB, 7916748800 bytes
244 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1022 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15128 * 512 = 7745536 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

hilbert@desk >

My question is this: If I partition it again, creating /dev/sdd1 and fornmatting it as fat32, would the Rockbox firmware recognize the partition, and read the files I copied to it? And what would happen if I then booted the OF, would some kind of data corruption occur?

Again, THANKS A LOT for this wonderful software. Rockbox is the only reason I buy mp3 players at all .

[ssorgatem]

Backup any data you have in it, test it yourself, and tell us

[torne]

Not all USB devices are supposed to be partitioned.. it's perfectly valid for the disk to just contain a FAT filesystem with no partition table at all. I'm not sure how the Fuze's storage is supposed to look, but you shouldn't *assume* that it's supposed to have a partition table: if the original firmware formats it without one, then just mount /dev/sdd and use that.

[Jennifur]

Not all USB devices are supposed to be partitioned.. it's perfectly valid for the disk to just contain a FAT filesystem with no partition table at all. I'm not sure how the Fuze's storage is supposed to look, but you shouldn't *assume* that it's supposed to have a partition table: if the original firmware formats it without one, then just mount /dev/sdd and use that.

The Fuze is exactly like this. There is no partition table. I was a bit "thrown off" by it too.