[maemo-developers] Location of /home, /tmp and /var folder kills tablet device in a couple of months

[From: Frantisek Dufka]

Oliver wrote:

> The main problem here are for example the Browser Cache and E-mail directory in /home
> and other data that is stored in /tmp or /var.
> This data all result in many write accesses to the internal flash device and in the long term this will have the result that the Tablet can't store new data on the internal flash device which makes the tablet useless.

See some explanation in
http://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=598#c9

If you are concerned about this you can also boot whole system from 
SD/MMC card - http://wiki.maemo.org/Booting_from_a_flash_card

Frantisek