Can I reduce the size of the boot partition? I would like to have more than 500M available for files.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frantisek Dufka</b> <<a href="mailto:dufkaf@seznam.cz">
dufkaf@seznam.cz</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Mike Mellor wrote:<br>> I am a new 770 user. I read that moving the filesystem to the media
<br>> card improves the computer's performance. Is this really a big<br>> improvement, or can I use the entire card for files (movies)?<br><br>Major improvement is visible only with custom kernel<br><a href="http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/#mmcplus">
http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/#mmcplus</a><br>Please note that it doesn't work with every card. It works for me with<br>Kingston 2GB MMCmobile, YMMV.<br><br>With default nokia kernel is is about the same. Maybe it feels slightly
<br>more responsible due to lower CPU usage (flash filesystem is compressed,<br>mmc card is not) but it is not substantial.<br><br>The main advantage is easier recovery in case something goes wrong and<br>more space for applications (depends on size you choose for root ext2
<br>partition).<br><br>See<br><a href="http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto_easily_boot_from_mmc_card/">http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto_easily_boot_from_mmc_card/</a><br>or bottom of<br><a href="http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto_bootrootfsfrommmc/">
http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto_bootrootfsfrommmc/</a><br><br>Frantisek<br></blockquote></div><br>