[maemo-users] Repartitioning my N900

[From: Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail]

Not really. that is the answer to my 1st question thaugh.

I want it to repartition it anyways.

f(t)

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Ville M. Vainio <vivainio at gmail.com> wrote:

>  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)?
> --
> Sent from my Nokia N900
>
> ----- Original message -----
> > 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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