Quote:
Originally Posted by davidfor
Interesting idea. I had a look in the firmware. In etc/init.d/rcS, I find:
Code:
dosfsck -a -w /dev/mmcblk0p3
mount -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8 /dev/mmcblk0p3 /mnt/onboard
rm -rf /mnt/onboard/fsck*
rm -rf /mnt/onboard/FSCK*
rm -rf /usr/local/Kobo/db.tgz
And in /usr/local/Kobo/udev/sd:
Code:
dosfsck -a -w $DEVNAME
mount -r -t vfat -o shortname=mixed $DEVNAME /mnt/sd
But, these are unchanged since at least FW2.4.0. So that doesn't explain why the change in behaviour with FW2.5.2.
Removing these lines would be a good test. As would changing to ext3. Someone has done that recently, so it is possible. |
I commented out the fsck line for the sd card (and the collection of lines that deleted the fsck*.rec files on the onboard storage) and it seems to have reduced the startup time from a power off. At least now, it is taking close to the same amount of time whether I have a 2GB or a 32GB card installed though it is still slower than I think it needs to be. I did notice that when I used my computer to copy the contents between SD cards, the Aura deleted the image files during the power on. Which brings up the request below:
Is it possible to give Kobo Utilities a progress indicator? I used Kobo Utilities to restore the cover images but for 1600+ books, this took several minutes with no indication that anything was happening.
Regards,
David