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software.enginee · 01-27-2010, 10:12 AM

jyavenard wrote a post that allows a person to MOUNT the hidden Kindle partition (he just did not know that he did).

If you look at his post: http://jyavariousideas.blogspot.com/
You get the first part.

Once you know THAT, you can make a symbolic link to the Kindle rootfs.
On a Mac, you can edit the mountlist (/volumes).

I wrote a simple program that allows me to graphically Telnet into the Kindle's hidden partitions and Drag & Drop files where I want to.

So,

jyavenard

By default, the Kindle will mount /mnt/us kindle partition.
But to gain mount (or gain access to) the hidden Kindle partitions, you need a symbolic link or a GUI program to emulate a link. I chose to write my own as I did not like most of the GUI telnet clients that I found.

My only problem now is that the Kindle RE-SETS the telnet connection after a few minutes.

Anyone have the same issue - and solved it?

01-27-2010, 10:12 AM	#14
software.enginee Junior Member Posts: 9 Karma: 10 Join Date: Dec 2009 Device: Kindle I , DX, BeBook	Mount (or gain access to) the hidden Kindle partitions w/ Drag & Drop jyavenard wrote a post that allows a person to MOUNT the hidden Kindle partition (he just did not know that he did). If you look at his post: http://jyavariousideas.blogspot.com/ You get the first part. Once you know THAT, you can make a symbolic link to the Kindle rootfs. On a Mac, you can edit the mountlist (/volumes). I wrote a simple program that allows me to graphically Telnet into the Kindle's hidden partitions and Drag & Drop files where I want to. So, jyavenard By default, the Kindle will mount /mnt/us kindle partition. But to gain mount (or gain access to) the hidden Kindle partitions, you need a symbolic link or a GUI program to emulate a link. I chose to write my own as I did not like most of the GUI telnet clients that I found. My only problem now is that the Kindle RE-SETS the telnet connection after a few minutes. Anyone have the same issue - and solved it?