Thread: where to get the correct source for N9/PR1.3 nitdroid
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Hurrian is offline Hurrian
2012-12-03 , 12:42
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Originally Posted by juiceme View Post
What I find hard to understand now, if this space is called "var", it is not mounted as /var ?
As there is only /var that is part of the / (mounted from /dev/mmcblk0p2) in the system... so what is it actually used for?
I think it used to/was going to house /var.
However, Harmattan team could not decide what do to with it.
If you read thru /sbin/preinit, it checks for the existence of /var/lib on the rootfs, and if it doesn't exist, it mounts /var from the NAND.

But it's not there, so we have this space all to ourselves.
Hey, it's free space, not used by anything. Take it or leave it
This idea is much, much better than swapping on it (also something the Harmattan team thought they'd want to do, and certainly dabbled with as seen in /etc/init/enable-swap.conf)
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