Thread: [Under consideration] More efficient and flexible use of internal flash
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Big Phat Jan is offline Big Phat Jan
2010-01-07 , 08:55
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#44
Originally Posted by soeiro View Post
1) Is it possible to replace the standard FM with another one?

2) Would it be possible to implement a standard wrapper around a replacement FM so that when the standard open/save dialog is required by an app, the new FM would provide that?
If the main aim of replacing the filemanager would be to allow access to /home an easier way that seems to work (I've done no testing at all!) would be to bind mount /home to a place under MyDocs, e.g.

Code:
sudo gainroot
cd /home/user/MyDocs
mkdir home_mnt
mount --bind /home home_mnt
If this seems to work OK you could add a line to your /etc/fstab file to automate this.

WARNING! I guess this could break in strange and unexpected ways upon attaching to a computer in mass storage mode. I'll have a look at an automatic umount but if you try this out in the mean time it's probably worth manually doing it before connecting to a computer.

Code:
sudo gainroot
umount /home/user/MyDocs/home_mnt
Cheers,
Jan