Thread: N900 - Yes, it sucks.
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fatalsaint is offline fatalsaint
2010-12-22 , 05:45
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#663
Originally Posted by epitaph View Post
Thank you for your reply. I'm an absolute noob, I went for solution #1 swapping home - MyDocs. I was thinking about the camera and other apps if they needed a fat partition. Also I want to know if you use bittorrent and if is more stable with ext3?
If you follow the steps in my link, the Camera and stuff will no longer need FAT. Your home and your MyDocs will both be EXT3 and everything will work fine.

Link: http://wiki.maemo.org/Repartitioning_the_flash
Yup, many ways to skin a cat and all that.. I used one of those solutions for a long time but dealing with FAT just got annoying (desktop is Linux as well so ext3 on everything doesn't affect me.)

P.S: I have read it - it seems a bit complicated. A download would be nice! Also swapping home with MyDocs that you can keep a widely compatible ( not only Linux ) USB - massstorage device.
Won't work that way. /home is not mounted when you connect via USB to the computer. Only SD cards and MyDocs are mounted. If you make MyDocs ext3 that is what will be exported to the computer via USB.

That's what it makes so interesting. Also I want to know how is the keyboard layout for the n900. I'm really needing for the pipe-sign, the lesser and the greater sign. Any idea?
Those are in the Symbols menu. Not hard to get to but having them readily available would be nice. There is some how-to's in this forum to do that I believe (I seem to recall coming across them).. I don't have them off hand though. Look around, should find it.
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