I won't go into anymore details, since most of what I could say has already been said by others

But I'd like to address the matter of symlinking stuff in /usr from the (slower) ext3-partition that is mounted in /home. I would probably not just move everything, since most of the stuff doesn't take that much space.

There are some apps that take up a lot of space though, one of them being nokia-maps (maemo maps, I presume) in /usr/share/nokia-maps, which takes up about 10 megabytes. I could easily see myself symlinking from /home/share/nokia-maps, because if we only have 227.9 megabytes of "fast" memory, it stands to reason that MOST applications won't be on the fast memory partition and I haven't seen them taking any huge performance hit yet.

I guess Nokia elected to put their maemo maps on the rootfs to gain some (small?) performance increase, since it's quite sluggish as it is out of the box.

I found the command

du -d 2 /var /usr /lib | sort -n

to be quite effective when it comes to check which directories take up a lot of space. It sorts 2 levels of directories in /var /usr and /lib in ascending order according to disk space usage (in kilobytes).

/usr/share/nokia-maps and /usr/share/locale take about 10 megabytes each and /usr/lib/locale/ has a single file "locale-archive" that takes up about 16 megabytes and I don't even know what it does.

I'm not saying you should remove this stuff or even move it behind a symlink. I'm just saying it's good to know what takes up space on your device so you can do something about it if the need rises. If in doubt, research (google) it Like this hit for locale-archive:

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-L...5-08/1529.html