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Originally Posted by ivyking View Post
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then fire up gparted . select the 27 GB device (emmc)
right click on the first partition and click shrink , shrink it about 7GB then move the second partition (the ext3 /home partition) to the left and expand it more ex. to 3GB if you want , this gives you more space to install apps in maemo .
now move the swap partition also to the left .
all free space should be on the right .
right click on the free space and click new partition .
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Nice tutorial for people with a bit of knowledge (but noobs still won't do that in my oppinion, too little informations and too little step-by-step instructions :P). I will try doing more or less the same way soon. I'm planning to do some more things after chrooting from maemo (making it as also a separate boot option in multiboot). But I have one huuuge remark (about the sentence I marked in bold). You don't need to have all free space on the right. You can just resize MyDocs partition (it will wipe MyDocs data, so backup first) and create partition berween MyDocs and /home partitions, just we have to name it in partition table with a number greater, than 3. The source of this information is wiki page http://wiki.maemo.org/Repartitioning...h#Some_remarks :
Originally Posted by wiki.maemo.org
Maemo hardcodes the MyDocs partition as /dev/mmcblk0p1 in several applications. If you keep a VFAT partition, make sure it is the first partition (partitions in the table do not need to have the same order as on the disk). Otherwise you have to modified several scripts belonging to ke-recv.
So if I understand correctly, only the order of partitions in partition table is relevant. And modyfing only MyDocs partition (and leaving /home and swap stay where they are) is a little bit safer in my oppinion, as it is not necessary to move these partitions and one does not have to make a backup of them and restore them later - less operations = less possibilities of making mistake and bricking device.
 

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