Thread: Repartition the internal drive
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titan is offline titan
2010-06-11 , 05:43
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Originally Posted by pantera1989 View Post
I have successfully repartitioned the device to increase the home partition how much I want. But I need testers before I submit it to the wiki. And maybe someone with more knowledge can fix a bit the process. Here's a link: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=55549
So far 3 thanks but no replies. I have only tested this myself.
first of all, I suggest merging your new thread into this thread.

Some of the methods I described on
http://wiki.maemo.org/Repartitioning_the_flash
no longer work on PR1.2 as it is impossible to boot w/o /home.

An alternative method w/o reflashing could be:
* delete MyDocs partition
* create new home at the beginning of the free space
* copy old home to new home
* set old home's type to unknown
* reboot
* delete old home and create new MyDocs,
make sure MyDocs is partition 1 in the table (even though it's 2nd in the logical layout)

I always use sfdisk as I couldn't make fdisk align the partitions to multiples of 64K,
which is important for flash performance. It's also much easier to swap the table order with sfdisk.
 

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