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

[From: Oliver]

Frantisek wrote

> 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
> 

Thank's for your answer.
This clarifies a lot.

Being able to use the device for about over 30 years is sufficient for me.
But still i would like to know if it is save to move those directories to my external SD flash drive. I won't remove
the SD drive on a daily basis, but i want to know when the system is mounting the SD flash drive
because  want be sure, that the device mounts the SD flash drive before accessing the files on these directories.
So when does the system mount the device or when does it have access to it?

This interests me also, because i want to move the /usr directory to the 2 GB internal flash drive because i need more space than 256 MB for user space programms.
For example i want install a compiler + dev and documentation files on the device, that's why i will need the 2 GB for 
the software.

So it is save to move those directories and changing the /etc/fstab entry or could this result in a problem booting the device?
If the latter is the case, is there a way to rescue the system?


Regards,
 Oliver






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