[maemo-users] Repartitioning my N900

[From: Francisco Diaz Trepat - gmail]

I BRICK my phone. On the third instruction, the one that formats the
partition.

f(t)
 > 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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