Greg,

As far as I know the mountSwap script picks the first swap partition it encounters, so that confirms your findings. Could the following help you?
USB hub with your two drives without swap partition in one port of the Playon and a USB stick with one swap partition in the second USB port of the Playon.

As far as I understand your wishes you will not be bothered by the reduced band width of the two drives in a hub.

Hi mate.
Thanks for the idea but I don't think so.

I am pretty sure that the mountSwap script picks the first drive that is READY.... I am also getting some errors with the swapon command within the script.

Is there a need to upgrade BusyBox? I may do this anyhow if you can point me in the right direction.

JR has been really helpful in debugging and my Linux knowledge has increased a thousandfold over thelast couple of weeks. Those weeks that I spemt on HP-UX ten or fifteen years ago are all coming back to me.

I suppose the Alzheimer's is about due to strike again.



Will keep this thread updated until I get this resolved.

It is NOT going to beat me!!!!

Hi GregiBoy

Well sorry to hear it still gives the problem.



No I don't think so. It might give you a few more commands. I would rather suggest installing optware. You can specify the software which you can install. You can do a lot more with that.

An option is to delete both swap partitions (No need to reformat the hard disk) and modify using the filechck if incorrect labels. It does not create a label if it is just a partition. I just deleted the swap to try it out.

Without swap
Labels C: D: E:
links correct
C: /tmp/usbmounts/sda1
D: /tmp/usbmounts/sda2
E: /tmp/usbmounts/sdb1
links incorrect
C: /tmp/usbmounts/sdb1
D: /tmp/usbmounts/sda1
E: /tmp/usbmounts/sda2
action: remove links
create: using the filechck script.
C: /tmp/usbmounts/sda1
D: /tmp/usbmounts/sda2
E: /tmp/usbmounts/sdb1

Another option is to delete the swap partition on the second drive and recreate a smaller swap partition and create another ext3 partition (There is no need to reformat the data section).


With swap and another ext3
Labels D: E:; G:H
links correct
D: /tmp/usbmounts/sda2
E: /tmp/usbmounts/sda3
G: /tmp/usbmounts/sdb2
H: /tmp/usbmounts/sdb3
links incorrect
D: /tmp/usbmounts/sdb2
E: /tmp/usbmounts/sdb3
G: /tmp/usbmounts/sda2
H: /tmp/usbmounts/sda3
action: remove links
create: using the filechck script.
D: /tmp/usbmounts/sda2
E: /tmp/usbmounts/sda2
G: /tmp/usbmounts/sdb2
H: /tmp/usbmounts/sdb3

You could than install optware on the other partition and keep data and software on a separate disk.

JR

Sorry JR....

You've lost me here....

No swap is really not an option because YAMJ then runs like crap....

So what then are you suggesting?

Drive 1
Swap
Ext3-1
Ext3 -2

Drive 2
Ext3-1

??

If there is only ONE swap partition (and not on any of your hard drives) that will be the one that is mounted by the script. If you have no swap partition on your hard drives, they cannot be picked by definition and you can freely manipulate the Ext3 partition on your hard drives.

Ok no problem.

No need to change anything

Drive 2
If you can create another ext3 partition we get equal ext3 partitions on both disk so the first partition will always be a swap!
If you don't have diskspace at the end, to create a ext3 partition than you can delete the swap partition and the diskspace that become free we can split that in 2 partitions 1 for swap and one for ext3.

So Drive2
become
Swap
Ext3
Ext3 (Movies) This will cause the incorrect label but we can swap using filechck.

JR

Hi JR

I've been looking at installing Optware on the Mini with v7317 firmware myself - do you happen to know which is the best feed to use?

Andy

Hi Andy



I jotted down some notes this might be of some help

This is the feed I use.
http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ipk

JR

I'm over this!!!

I've resurrected a Linksys NAS 200 that I had in my bits and pieces bin and gonn give that a go and put an old 256Mb USB stick that I found in the same bin in the back of the player for the swapfile.

Only another 46 hours of formatting and data transfer but what the hell!!!

Let's see how this runs.....

Will report on it maybe Monday!!!

Be aware that USB flash disk are slower in reading and writing than a hard disk. So your swap performance will go down.

They also have a limited read/write cycles but as you are going to use as swap drive with possible many read/write/cycles it might fail after some months.

May I suggest keep on using drive 1 on the mini2 and use the NAS for drive 2. Safe you maybe many hours transferring and don't have the above problems. Your mapping problems will also be gone as you are only using 1 drive.

I did have a look at the specs of the Nas, I was hoping it would support ext3 on the USB ports, which is really strange that it does not as internally it uses ext3.

What kind of router do you have? Some routers do have an USB port and can share data and whith a bit of luck Ext3. This will eliminate the the NAS 200

JR