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How to reformat an SD card with a FAT filesystem on an OLPC XO laptop. |
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How to convert an SD card from ext2 to FAT filesystem on an OLPC XO laptop. |
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Warning: loses the contents of the SD card, and may not provide best performance. |
Warning: loses the contents of the SD card, and may not provide best performance. |
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Latest revision as of 03:12, 8 October 2013
How to reformat an SD card with a FAT filesystem on an OLPC XO laptop.
Warning: loses the contents of the SD card, and may not provide best performance.
Ingredients
- an OLPC XO laptop with OLPC OS 13.2.0,
- an SD card with any filesystem,
Recipe
- start Terminal activity,
- install GParted, type this:
sudo yum install -y gparted
- insert the SD card,
- start GParted, type this:
sudo gparted
- wait for the GParted window to appear,
- select the external SD card; GParted -> Devices -> /dev/mmcblk0 or /dev/mmcblk1,
- select the partition,
- unmount the partition; Partition -> Unmount,
- delete the partition; Partition -> Delete,
- create the filesystem; Partition -> New, File system: fat, Label: x, Add,
- apply all pending operations; Edit -> Apply All Operations,
- stop GParted; GParted -> Quit,
- eject and reinsert the SD card, or reboot,