Thread: Moving /home/user/MyDocs - bad idea?
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GeraldKo is offline GeraldKo
2009-11-03 , 21:35
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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?
Maybe you know all this, but if not ...

It's generally not a problem to just download everything to, and change defaults for saving to, some directory on a removable card rather than into MyDocs. I have almost nothing in MyDocs.

The only stuff that you have to have with the system are the apps, and if they are taking up too much room, the typical solution is to clone the system to a larger partition on a removable card, as per my sig below (particularly "try here first").
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