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I've recently swapped the /home and MyDocs partitions as per instructions on the wiki, and I'm very happy with the result, but there is a small issue. I'd like to keep my music, videos and the like on the big /home partition.

There seems to be two problems here, first is the media player doesn't allow me to specify where it should find it's files, is there a configuration file somewhere that I could edit?

Secondly, in other applications that do allow the selection of a directory they only allow selecting a directory under MyDocs or on the SD card. I expect this limitation is more likely to be hardcoded but I thought I'd ask.

I have no need for VFAT, all my computers run Linux, perhaps there's another solution that will get around my issues. Perhaps I could mount -o bind my /home on MyDocs? Any suggestions gratefully recieved :)

Re: Moving MyDocs?

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Originally Posted by klepto (Post 940534)

There seems to be two problems here, first is the media player doesn't allow me to specify where it should find it's files, is there a configuration file somewhere that I could edit?

Yes, the Media Player uses the tracker program to find the media files, you need to tell the tracker program which directories you want it to index, so the file you want is ~/.config/tracker/tracker.cfg (and restart the tracker processes with "tracker-processes -r") or you can install tracker-cfg if you want a GUI to do it.

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Secondly, in other applications that do allow the selection of a directory they only allow selecting a directory under MyDocs or on the SD card. I expect this limitation is more likely to be hardcoded but I thought I'd ask.

Yes, I think these are hard-coded, but I might be wrong.

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I have no need for VFAT, all my computers run Linux, perhaps there's another solution that will get around my issues. Perhaps I could mount -o bind my /home on MyDocs? Any suggestions gratefully recieved :)

You could try that, but it might cause problems after using mass-storage mode when Maemo tries to mount the MyDocs partition back there, or maybe before when it tries to unmount it if it has a filesystem bind mounted over the top of it. Maybe you could change the scripts so the "MyDocs" partition is mounted elsewhere, leaving the MyDocs directory free, or get rid of it completely if you don't intend to use mass-storage mode.

Re: Moving MyDocs?

:D :D :D
Most of us were taking the easy approach for starters, quickly picking up on the real thing: Customizing the partitions for enough optfs [home] and a still usable amount of MyDocs as per solution #3 http://wiki.maemo.org/Repartitioning...ome_and_MyDocs
Do it to get off those restrictions with partition's mount points implemented by Nokia.