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<p>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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<br><font color="#999999">Sent from my Nokia N900</font>
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<br>> Hi guys. I want to repartition my flash.
<br>>
<br>> I want to have more space for apps and more space to develop on.
<br>>
<br>> For starters I want to try the swap solutuion. I guess it is a good first
<br>> step for me.
<br>>
<br>> I have 3 questions:
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<br>> 1- I want to have also more space for apps, this solution won't help me
<br>> there, right?
<br>> 2-I have an N900 with PR 1.3 so are the NUMBERS bellow in the "table"
<br>> file correct for me? (I'm not sure if those numbers are for the N900 or
<br>> another device running maemo)
<br>> 3-I've read in the tutorial about other solutions for repartitionning
<br>> more oriented to having different Operating Systems like ubuntu. I have
<br>> an SD card, could I install Ubuntu there as I did with the NitDroid
<br>> project or would I need to repartition the internal flash?
<br>>
<br>> Please, If you could, write me a comment or advise.
<br>>
<br>> thanks and whish me luck.
<br>>
<br>> f(t)
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<br>> We assume you have the standard Nokia partition layout on your device.
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<br>> *Warning: the contents of MyDocs will deleted. Perform a backup!*
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<br>> umount /home/user/MyDocs
<br>> sfdisk -c /dev/mmcblk0 1 83 # optional (safer): change FAT to ext3 id
<br>> mkfs.ext3 /dev/mmcblk0p1 # create ext3 on large partition
<br>> mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt # mount new /home
<br>> cp -a /home/* /mnt # copy contents of /home to large partition
<br>> umount /mnt # unmount it
<br>>
<br>> create the file "table":
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<br>> unit: sectors
<br>> /dev/mmcblk0p1 : start= 56631360, size=  4194304, Id= c
<br>> /dev/mmcblk0p2 : start=  64, size= 56631296, Id=83
<br>> /dev/mmcblk0p3 : start= 60825664, size=  1572864, Id=82
<br>> /dev/mmcblk0p4 : start=  0, size=  0, Id= 0
<br>>
<br>> continue with
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<br>> sfdisk --no-reread /dev/mmcblk0 < table # change partition table, swap
<br>> p1 and p2 reboot; exit # reboot to re-read new table
<br>>
<br>> after reboot
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<br>> mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/mmcblk0p1  # create VFAT on 2GB partition
<br>> mount /home/user/MyDocs # mount it
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<br>> voila!
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