Thread: How to free rootfs limits
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2011-05-15 , 20:31
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Originally Posted by oneat View Post
I don't want to have more opt space (doing this is amazingly easy for me). I just want to have something like normal linux where I could be power user. Install thousands of apts by "make, make install" (or unoptified packages which works like make) and not be worried that my memory will vanish in any time. Your answers were very helpful for me, but I need something that would resolve this problem (copying whole root on eMMC or smth like) and not only partially. I bought this mobile instead of buying a new linux computer. Got me?
The real problem is, you have 2 different flash drives in the N900. One is RootFS and is a 256MB fast NAND chip. The other is the 32GB eMMC, partitioned as swap, opt and docs. You have to do with the 256MB RootFS, but you can make symlinks to wherever you want. I usually copy my source codes to /usr/src on my linux box, it is an empty folder in N900, so go ahead, and link it to /opt. There, problem solved After building your stuff, if they are big, move them to /opt. You only need to get a bit organized, you still can do anything with a 256MB RootFS.

You can try and install Ubuntu or the new Backtrack5 if you are not gonna use this as a phone. They install to eMMC, so you can mess up those RootFS as you please
Last edited by zdanee; 2011-05-15 at 20:37.