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Having and using two volumes on an iPod 6th Gen classic

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Frankenpod:

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--- Quote from: iPodVT on October 22, 2024, 09:27:49 AM ---Once again, I'm just musing (and should probably stop doing so...):

I'm guessing that the OF trips as soon as it sees that the MBR indicates a main partition greater than 128GB and/or the presence of any additional partitions beyond the 128GB limit.

Another interesting experiment - for knowledge sake only - would be to try formatting the 6th Gen with just one undersized partition and see how the OF reacts [edit: I'm guess the OF would be fine with that - it would be the same as installing an SD that is smaller than 128GB] .  If the OF is cool with that, then try formatting with two partitions that together stay within the LBA28 limit and see what the OF makes of that.  Again, just for knowledge sake, and as David Byrne sang, "I ain't got time for that now..." (though I increasingly desperately want to do the experiments).

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My 6th gen uses all of a 256 SD. It took several steps (with the help of chatGPT) that I probably couldn’t replicate if you paid me, but I was able to remove the second partition and Rockbox sees the full 256 partition.

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The crucial question is, though, does it corrupt if you ever (unintentionally) boot it into the original firmware?  Or have you managed to disable dual-booting?  If the answer to the first question is "no" or (more likely) the answer to the second is "yes", it would be interesting to know how you achieved that.

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