Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

Thanks everyone. I guess it really is that full then. So I have choices to increase the /home partition, move android back to an SD card, or another one I thought of was to simlink a bunch of the android stuff out of the android folder and into mydocs somewhere.
I think I'll give the increasing the partition. I'l go read up how to do that. Will it mean wiping anything though? Also- I'll try to find out how to scan the boot partitions. IS there an easy way to do that too?

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

Update- the fsck command tells me I need to unmount before I do the scan or else it can cause damage.
So- I might need to unmount it after all in order to check it out. Is it safe to unmount it for a scan- has anyone ever done this before? I am sure I read that it can be done by plugging into PC too- I might give that a go.

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

You can unmount MyDocs safely, but /home will be tricky, you won't be able to unmount it if anything is using any files on it and since /home also contains /opt where files from most apps are, it will be quite tricky to get it in a state where it can be unmounted. Before unmounting /home, you'll have to unmount /home/user/MyDocs because it is mounted on part of the /home filesystem and you'll have to unmount /opt since /opt is bind-mounted from /home/opt, if you can do that without it complaining about anything then you should be able to unmount /home. I would try it myself to see if it is possible, but I've just sent my N900 off for repair, so I can't.

One way to do it would be to find the startup script that mounts the partitions and edit it to do a fsck first before mounting them, but if you mess it up you might stall the boot process there and be stuck not being able to boot Maemo, if you are running NITDroid from an SD card, maybe you can run a fsck from that, I haven't tried NITDroid yet so I'm not overly familiar with it, but I should think that is a possibility. Also, I think backupmenu has an option to do a fsck of your /home partition, but again I haven't used that so I'm not 100% sure.

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

Sounds too tricky to be doing at this time of night:) I've been reading and it has been mentioned there exists a way to re-partition things without the need to plug into a PC. I only have a windows PC so the gparted thing wont work. OR is there some way that gparted will work using n900 only now, and that is what people are talking about? I haven't managed to track that down. If anyone has a link or knows what to get could you please let me know. Anything that will work to increase the /home partition without deleting any data will do.

thanks

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

For N900 exists parted (it is a console tool) if you want to try but it is necessary before to umount /home and MyDocs to do partition resizing.

If you have only a windows pc, it isn't a problem because N900 is an USB device and USB works well with virtual machine.
I have repartitioned my N900 by GParted with a virtual ubuntu on Windows Seven Host.

For faster solution you can also

• Backup optFS (with backupmenu) to MyDocs
• Backup MyDocs to PC (simple file copy)
• Flash a modified vanilla image to N900
• Restore MyDocs from PC
• Restore optFS (with BackupMenu) from MyDocs

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

I've just been away getting Mido's new backup menu. I will give one of those solutions a try tomorrow after work. Better get to bed for now. Thanks for all your help:)

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

hey

u caan simply incresse ur /home partition to 5 giga by ustom EMMC and it's very simple

if u want 5 giga for /home , u can use this custom EMMC image
http://www.mediafire.com/?j6srnaxwr3notaf

and if u want to increase it to 8 giga , u can use this custom EMMC
http://www.mediafire.com/?5o1hkuuwhn8hh1c

BUT BEFORE USING EMMC IMAGES , DON'T FORGET TO UNPACK THEM FIRST

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

If you are familiar with flashing, there is a rescue boot kernel you can temporarily flash. It gives you access to all the partitions on the next boot. I used an Ubuntu live cd, and re-partitioned the emmc to include an extra partition for nitdroid. Didn't lose any files either. I posted how to do it at the nitdroid forums in the install to emmc thread, 2nd or 3rd page I think.

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

BEFORE UNPACKING SMTH, REMEMBER - NO SUPPORT.

P.S. @mido.fayad may be you start another thread (at least?)
As I said before, no problem with distribution, but provide support by yourself.

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

e-yes :) >>>>> i think u misunderstand me >>>>> it's not NITDroid image

it's custom nokia EMMC image to increase mmcblk0p2 to 5 or 8 giga

and it's very useful with NITDroid as it fixes space problem

and i packed them to be able to upload them as they more than 255 mega

but nitdroid image only 105 mega


P . S : @ e-yes : i hope u don't misunderstand me
and without ur great efforts , we won't able to see this wonderfull GinGerBread :)