[maemo-users] Repartitioning my N900

[From: Ville M. Vainio]

Just to get one thing straight - are you sure the 2gigs for apps and /home are not enough? Or, did you just run out of rootfs space (i.e. Didn't placd your app under /opt ("optify" it), and hence think you need to repartition your mmc)?
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Sent from my Nokia N900

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> Hi guys. I want to repartition my flash.
> 
> I want to have more space for apps and more space to develop on.
> 
> For starters I want to try the swap solutuion. I guess it is a good first
> step for me.
> 
> I have 3 questions:
> 
> 1- I want to have also more space for apps, this solution won't help me
> there, right?
> 2-I have an N900 with PR 1.3 so are the NUMBERS bellow in the "table"
> file correct for me? (I'm not sure if those numbers are for the N900 or
> another device running maemo)
> 3-I've read in the tutorial about other solutions for repartitionning
> more oriented to having different Operating Systems like ubuntu. I have
> an SD card, could I install Ubuntu there as I did with the NitDroid
> project or would I need to repartition the internal flash?
> 
> Please, If you could, write me a comment or advise.
> 
> thanks and whish me luck.
> 
> f(t)
> 
> We assume you have the standard Nokia partition layout on your device.
> 
> *Warning: the contents of MyDocs will deleted. Perform a backup!*
> 
> umount /home/user/MyDocs
> sfdisk -c /dev/mmcblk0 1 83 # optional (safer): change FAT to ext3 id
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1 # create ext3 on large partition
> mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt # mount new /home
> cp -a /home/* /mnt # copy contents of /home to large partition
> umount /mnt # unmount it
> 
> create the file "table":
> 
> unit: sectors
> /dev/mmcblk0p1 : start= 56631360, size=   4194304, Id= c
> /dev/mmcblk0p2 : start=             64, size= 56631296, Id=83
> /dev/mmcblk0p3 : start= 60825664, size=   1572864, Id=82
> /dev/mmcblk0p4 : start=               0, size=               0, Id= 0
> 
> continue with
> 
> sfdisk --no-reread /dev/mmcblk0 < table # change partition table, swap
> p1 and p2 reboot; exit # reboot to re-read new table
> 
> after reboot
> 
> mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/mmcblk0p1   # create VFAT on 2GB partition
> mount /home/user/MyDocs # mount it
> 
> voila!

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