Thread: Moving /home/user/MyDocs - bad idea?
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VulcanRidr is offline VulcanRidr
2009-11-03 , 16:53
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Originally Posted by volt View Post
Hi.

I can't save my todo list today, because the root partition is full. N810. I have previously emptied some cache, moved some log files from /home/user/ to mmc1 and symlinked to them, and now I consider moving+symlinking the entire MyDocs directory there.

Like mentioned in this thread: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=14606

However, there was a warning on that thread, saying:

"Though this works, this procedure might cause the battery to drain quickly. I'm not really sure whether this is the reason, but after I did these, my battery drained quickly."

So, this halted my plan somewhat. Have anyone moved the MyDocs folder? What reasons exist not to?
I've had /home/user/MyDocs and /home/user/sword symlinked to /media/mmc1 since day 1. Since I have a lot of video and podcast traffic to /home/user/MyDocs/.videos and .sounds respectively (and some can get rather large), and the Bibles and commentaries can take up space, I moved them over.

The plus side is that they fit nicely on my 16GB card, but the downside is that I can't generally remove the SD card, not that I have reason to now that USB networking works. I plug the entire device into my desktop and it mounts the external drive like a charm. For smaller stuff (e.g. mp3s/oggs), I just transfer over wireless.

--vr