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Re: how to unmount / format SD card

 

Hi Victor, does that mean that the M10 tablet won't support ext3 for the sdcard? Have noticed this listed on the website. Cheers,

Mitchell

On 4 April 2016 4:41:52 PM AEST, Vic G <victor.gonzalez@xxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi Matthias!
>
>FAT32 is the officialy supported format for SD-cards, even if in some 
>places were written that ext3 was compatible (sorry, specs error I 
>think, because the QA tests failed).
>
>I always try to format SD-card with the device to see if it works and 
>sometimes I end up formatting the SD-card with gparted. For example, 
>with SD-card in ext3 krillin(rc300)and vegeta(stable) were not able to 
>format the SD-card through the GUI so please fill a bug =)
>
>If you want support for another file system or anything related with 
>this, I think that filling a bug against the general project would be 
>fine, then our Canonical mates will address it for sure:
>
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+filebug
>
>Regards,
>
>El 03/04/16 a las 20:38, Matthias Apitz escribió:
>> El día Sunday, April 03, 2016 a las 03:37:07PM +0200, Matthias Apitz
>escribió:
>>
>>> I have inserted an used 8 GByte SD card which is recognised by the
>E4.5 and
>>> mounted (even if the SD GUI app says it can not mount or format it):
>>>
>>> phablet@ubuntu-phablet:~$ mount | fgrep vfat
>>> /dev/mmcblk1p1 on /media/phablet/7895-9F4B type vfat
>(rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=32011,gid=32011,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
>>>
>>> also all the old content is visible fine:
>>> ...
>> Should I wipe out the file system or even the partition table before
>> inserting the card? What is the recommended procedure?
>>
>> 	matthias
>>
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