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	RogerS	2006-01-29 , 14:00
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Originally Posted by dr_kludge

Now when you say you are going to install lot's of applications that is not the same as using memory or swap. The installation is what you'd put in your 812MB of space. To give you a perspective the largest app that I have installed so far is 2,408,576 while rsync is the smallest at 241,548. If you run xterm, then it will consume 2.4MB of memory. I think you'd have more than enough for both areas, if you use the 128/812 configuration.

Well, I was thinking that the use of the Extended Root Filesystem that Wolfram (aka Daniel) described actually put new installed apps on the second partition of the mmc:

Originally Posted by Wolfram

I recommend you move the root and user home directories onto the memory card (/root and /home/user) as well as user data like bookmarks (/usr/share/osso-bookmarks), settings (/etc/bluetooth/name, /var/lib/gconf, and /etc/osso-af-init/locale), even installed programs (/var/lib/install).

Please advise if I've misunderstood this.

Since I've seen it repeated so much, I guess I will start with a 24MB swap file until larger sizes are definitively shown to be more effective.

I guess the only problem I can see with all but 64 mb of the mmc card as the second partition -- as Wolf does -- is that it won't make moving a large movie from my PC to the 770 easy -- from earlier reports it seems a full-length movie can be larger than 700 mb. I won't be able to use USB transfer to the second partition.

Dr K, Wolf -- what would be the best/easiest way to transfer huge files to the 770 then?

Instead of 64/960 (W) or 960/64 (K), would this make something like 824/200 more optimal? Or 700/324 for more app room? Or 900/124 for longer movies?

I guess I don't want to be squeezed in the space I'm allocating for apps, nor do I want to waste any space. Not that I'm the only one who wants easy optimization.

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