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This is now fixed, I have my N900 running with ext4 MyDocs and no problems. My booting issues were due to the awk madness that generates the fstab (why???) barfing on two partitions having the same type. I disabled the whole thing and went with a static fstab like most linux systems in this reality.

Originally Posted by lalomartins View Post
For me the motivation wasn't size, as I was satisfied with the partitioning, but I wanted MyDocs in a filesystem that preserves permissions (especially fed up with every file having +x when copied out of there).

I formatted it as ext4, changed a pile of scripts (there are instructions on page 18 of this topic), and actually remembered to change the ownership of the whole filesystem to the user before I even tried to use the camera — meaning I never actually experienced camera issues.

Right now I'm happily using my n900 with an ext4 MyDocs, no problems yet.

One thing I have to note though, since my uid on my work/home computers is obviously not the same, I had to do something to be able to write to MyDocs when mounted with mass storage. Best way to do that was with POSIX ACLs; man setfacl is your friend.