Thread: [Under consideration] Remove 256MB limitation of the rootfs partition in the N900
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stefanmohl is offline stefanmohl
2010-02-11 , 02:33
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#61
Originally Posted by @SR View Post
The default behavior for the union is to write all modifications to the file to the most top writable partition that already has the file and to create new files in the most top writable partition that already has the closest folder structure.
Couldn't you create copies of the directories that you want to shadow in the ext3 partition first, before you apply unionfs? If you copy the whole directory structure (without the files) from the fast flash to the ext3 partition first, wouldn't all files stick in the ext3 partition then?
Last edited by stefanmohl; 2010-02-11 at 02:41.