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2011-04-18 , 15:30
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#2932
Originally Posted by ivgalvez View Post
One of the worst things of Android IMHO is how applications pollute your sd card making it almost impossible to find something. It's like in the first days of Windows.

I've asked this before but still haven't found any answer:

I'd like to use a vfat partition in my micro sd as the sdcard for Nitdroid so my folder MyDocs wouldn't be polluted when installing Android applications.

Does anyone knows how to do it? Nitdroid doesn't seem to have an /etc/mtab to manually edit mountings, and manually symlinking /sdcard to new location doesn't work because the MyDocs vfat is still mounted as /mnt/sdcard.

Could you please direct me to a place with information about how Android manages partition mounting?.
I think I've seen this question 2x now, didn't have my N900 handy the first time, still don't, but I can probably get you on the right track.

As far as I can tell mount are setup when booting using init scripts which seem to vary from device to device, depending on the particulars of the device in question (although I could be completely wrong).

For nitdroid, I had the same complaint. What I found (probably at the nitdroid forums), duh, here it is:

This thread. You need to edit /system/etc/vold.fstab

line 31
Code:
/devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.1/mmc_host/mmc1
change to
Code:
/devices/platform/mmci-omap-hs.0/mmc_host/mmc0
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