Thread: N900 - Issues surrounding full root partition (No space left on device)
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-02-03 , 15:33
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Originally Posted by rickrvo View Post
why the need to have all this partitions? limiting everything... wouldn't be wiser to just have 2 partitions? one for rootfs and other for all other storage?

I just think that linux screwed this up. I have 4 email accounts on my n900, i'm being carefull to delete everything thats completly unecessary.. when I shouldn't be concerned of the space.

is there any way to resize these partitions? or even join them? (which in my opinion is the best way..)
The rootfs is separate because it's a high-speed flash memory chip connected directly to the processor. It's only 256M because that was the largest that was available at the time.

We then have two partitions on the eMMC, /home (/opt is a symlink to /home/opt) and /home/user/MyDocs. These are separate because the MyDocs partition needs to be formatted as VFAT in order for it to be exportable to Windows, whereas the home directory needs to be ext2/3 in order for standard Linux applications to work and for permissions to apply.

You can resize the /home partition (at the expense of MyDocs) - have a search for instructions. It's not a simple process though, and any changes will be lost if you have to reflash the eMMC (this shouldn't be necessary though).
 

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