mount fat32 on tivo

[kurjiboo]

I want a drive that I can swap between the tivo and my PC for fast and easy transfer of mpeg data. When I mount a FAT32 drive, tivo says i need to specify the fs type. When I do it says its not supported. is the fs called something else?

Maybe there is another way to mount a partition that is compatible with Tivo and Windows? I tried formatting to ext2, but windows doesn't reconginze that and the win32 program (explore2fs) that's supposed to doesn't either. Any suggestions? All I could find was about mounting to an intel-based linux box.

[lcreech]

You need to install a kernel module for the file system type you want to mount, like fat.o or vfat.o, they probably are not on the system so you may have to (cross) compile them yourself if no one has done so already. In addition there may be a byte swapping issue with the non-native drive.

[kurjiboo]

Where would I get a module? I assume the module for linux that runs on a i386 wouldn't work in tivo linux? So.. crosscompile. Unless there is a better way, I guess I'll be reading. Oh, and does ext2 have a 2gig file limit? Clipped 2 shows I was extracting to an ext2 partition at the same point. Bummer.

What FS are compatible with Tivo without too much work ie. I wouldn't have to make a module?

[lcreech]

Ext2 is supported by all linux distros like redhat on x86 and the tivo. Though you will still have to deal with the byte swapping issue since the byte order is different between like FS formated by different processors. This is not as much of a problem as it sounds since you can tell the os to do the byte swapping and mount the drive. This is covered by some other threads I just don't have it handy. The 25Extreme CD seems to be able to mount the TiVo PPC ext2, x86 ext2 and msdos partitions without any params specified. You are correct that modules are not compatible with different processors. But I'm not so sure if the 2g file size limit still exists with the newer kernels/distros.