combining the two FIDS directories should work. Anyone ever actually do that?

Yep, I did, when I moved all music contents of the Mk1 to my Mk2 by transplanting the second drive. This works fine as the player looks on /drive1if it cannot find music files on /drive0. It goes as follows:

a) add all music files from disk1 onto whatever music files already are on the second disk:
mount -n -o remount,rw /drive1
cd /drive1/fids
cp /drive0/fids/* . (star space dot!)
mount -n -o remount,ro /drive1
sync

b) drop the disk into the Mk2, and remove all music files on it:
mount -n -o remount,rw /drive0
cd /drive0/var
rm database
rm playlists
rm tags
cd /drive0/fids
rm *
mount -n -o remount,ro /drive0

start the player, connect to it via emplode and let it rebuild the database, and voila: all music recovered! According to Mike (who authored this procedure) the player now uses the music from the second disk in addition to that on the first disk (which is nothing). The wonderful thing is that any *new* music is shared between the two disks depending on available space in that emplode puts music on the disk with the most space, first .

(like rubbing a lamp . . . )

Henno
mk2 6 nr 6