Thread: Cloning OS to SD Card: Simplified instructions
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2007-12-16 , 20:07
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#87
Originally Posted by skeezer65134 View Post
One question; is there an advantage to putting the OS on the second partition
The advantage is that it just works with zero tweaking.
Originally Posted by skeezer65134 View Post
or is that just recommended so when you plug the N800 into a windows machine you see the first FAT partition?
Yes. Also you see card mounted in file manager and you can create swap on it easily via control panel applet. It is simply the most compatible way. If you want first partition just for swap you can still keep it as FAT and have swap file there. AFAIK swapping to file is done via direct device i/o just like with real partition so there is no additional overhead or slowdown.

Still, using one ext2 partition should work too (maybe with some minor system tweaks).
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