#8412 NORM Not Tri: Improve useability and usefulness of sd/sdhc cards

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#8412: Improve useability and usefulness of sd/sdhc cards
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   Reporter:  hhardy        |       Owner:               
       Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new          
   Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Not Triaged  
  Component:  not assigned  |     Version:  not specified
 Resolution:                |    Keywords:               
Next_action:  never set     |    Verified:  0            
  Blockedby:                |    Blocking:               
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Description changed by hhardy:

Old description:

> I have now a 32 GB SDHC card for my G1G1 XO:
>
> From a G1G1 user standpoint, the following should be "easy":
>
> Partition the SDHC card
> Create ext3 partition(s)
> Create NTFS partition(s)
> Boot from multiple partitions on SD card
> Make and use swap space on SD card
> Store and retrieve media files from SD card
> Resize partitions
> Manually mount and unmount SD cards from terminal
>
> In general, please do not implement things like the unmounting of the SD
> card given in the graphical journal interface which break or do not
> respect command line commands such as "umount". For people who know
> regular unix, it is frustrating when features such as fstab and umount
> and the like don't work as intended.
>
> --HH.

New description:

 I have now a 32 GB SDHC card for my G1G1 XO:

 From a G1G1 user standpoint, the following should be "easy":

 * Partition the SDHC card

 * Create ext3 partition(s)

 * Create NTFS partition(s)

 * Boot from multiple partitions on SD card

 * Make and use swap space on SD card

 * Store and retrieve media files from SD card

 * Resize partitions

 * Manually mount and unmount SD cards from terminal

 In general, please do not implement things like the unmounting of the SD
 card given in the graphical journal interface which break or do not
 respect command line commands such as "umount". For people who know
 regular unix, it is frustrating when features such as fstab and umount and
 the like don't work as intended.

 --HH.

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