swapoff /dev/mmcblk0p3 rebooted my N900 and removed my desktop widgets - but their position was saved so it was easy to restore them. Apparently this happens when the process hildon-home is stopped.

Also I think this may be more of an I/O problem to the MyDocs partition, as sometimes when I have been backing up the ED image the windows copy dialog reports 45 minutes remaining. If I restart the device and try again it only takes 5 minutes. It feels the same as when I am unable to connect to PC as the device storage is in use, even though I am not doing anything. I tried lsof to see if anything else is accessing the MyDocs partition but it reports nothing. Any other ways?

Also Is it safe to unmount MyDocs and perform fsck when the N900 is running? Windows chkdsk doesn't do anything, maybe the copying out the fsck from ED will work better.