partition things

[Frank_VD]

I have an ipod video 5.5th gen. which I use mainly as external storage (one of the audio channels is broken). My I resize the fat32 partition to just a coupld GB and allocate the rest to an ext4 partition.

The rockbox utility gives an error (3 times) : "error reading partition table - possibly not an ipod". That is after recreating and formatting a new fat32 partition at the same starting sector like it was (created by itunes).

So I need to have a "valid" partition table first, install rockbox, resize/recreate the partition table after which the firmware still works but is missing files. And I can't re-install because of this error. It's not a huge issue because I barely use the actual audio anymore but it would be cool if RockboxUtility could be forced to ignore the issues with the partion table and just go ahead with installing on a small-ish partition?

Thanks for reading

[torne]

Your partitioning tool is probably tampering with the first partition, the firmware partition. It's in partition table entry 1 and it has an invalid type, which makes it appear not to be a partition at all in many tools, and then they may end up deleting/changing it.

As long as your tools can leave the first partition table entry *completely alone* you should be able to partition it however you like.