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2014-10-01
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ALTERNATIVE with fdisk
- HOWTO possibly resize partitions on an EMTPY N900 using rescueOS with fdisk
This is an alternative to the above resize steps, using fdisk instead of sfdisk.
The resulting size of the partitions on the internal 32GB card are 6GB for MyDocs and 23,6 GB for home (and opt), 900+MB for swap.
Start with step (1) (see above)!
Within fdisk do the following:
delete partitions
d / 4, d /3, d /2,d
verify that you have an empty partition table with "p"
add new partitions
n / p / ENTER / +6000M
n / p / ENTER /+23600M
n / p / ENTER / ENTER
toggle partition type
t / 1 / c
t / 3 / 82
"w" write the parition table to disk
Continue with step "2-b" to make filesystems, then flash combined (see above).
- HOWTO possibly resize partitions on an EMTPY N900 using rescueOS with fdisk
This is an alternative to the above resize steps, using fdisk instead of sfdisk.
The resulting size of the partitions on the internal 32GB card are 6GB for MyDocs and 23,6 GB for home (and opt), 900+MB for swap.
Start with step (1) (see above)!
Code:
fdisk -S 32 -H 64 /dev/mmcblk0
delete partitions
d / 4, d /3, d /2,d
verify that you have an empty partition table with "p"
add new partitions
n / p / ENTER / +6000M
n / p / ENTER /+23600M
n / p / ENTER / ENTER
toggle partition type
t / 1 / c
t / 3 / 82
"w" write the parition table to disk
Continue with step "2-b" to make filesystems, then flash combined (see above).
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2014-12-19
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BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /
ubi0:rootfs 227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /
tmpfs 1.0M 68.0k 956.0k 7% /tmp
tmpfs 256.0k 84.0k 172.0k 33% /var/run
none 10.0M 72.0k 9.9M 1% /dev
tmpfs 64.0M 4.0k 64.0M 0% /dev/shm
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1 27.0G 1015.3M 26.0G 4% /home/user/MyDocs
~ $
please help to resolve the memory problem
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /
ubi0:rootfs 227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /
tmpfs 1.0M 68.0k 956.0k 7% /tmp
tmpfs 256.0k 84.0k 172.0k 33% /var/run
none 10.0M 72.0k 9.9M 1% /dev
tmpfs 64.0M 4.0k 64.0M 0% /dev/shm
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
227.8M 219.2M 4.3M 98% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1 27.0G 1015.3M 26.0G 4% /home/user/MyDocs
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please help to resolve the memory problem
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2014-12-20
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http://wiki.maemo.org/Free_up_rootfs_space
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possibly resulting in: about 26GB for home and opt (ext3), 2GB for MyDocs (vfat), swap stays the same.
Preface
(before executing these steps)
THIS MIGHT WORK OR NOT - IT WORKED FOR ME, MAYBE NOT FOR YOU! ALWAYS TEST AND THINK YOURSELF!
This is my addition to the general Wiki-Howto ("Repartitioning the flash", http://wiki.maemo.org/Repartitioning_the_flash) and other postings.
I found the rescueOS to be highly useful as well for re-partitioning. Be careful though, as it is directly working at the inner parts of your system. These steps only worked for me - my premise was that I was having a completely empty N900 on my hand. So I was ready and set to completely re-flash my system anyhow.
So, in addition to this post, it is essential to have my previous post ready: to possibly get your N900 back to a working gadget!
[HOWTO] FLASH N900 Fremantle / Use rescueOS to Backup MyDOCS / locate FIRMWARE RX-51 files and flasher
HOWTO possibly resize partitions on an EMTPY N900 using rescueOS
(steps start here)
(1) BootUP into rescueOS (see above, ) and start mass storage
( flasher-3.5 -k 2.6.37 -n rescueOS-1.1.img -l -b"rootdelay root=/dev/ram0" )
Read the first four steps from this posting: HOWTO possibly recover MYDOCS from N900 using rescueOS
At this stage: rescueOS is started at the N900.
This step "2" is to be executed directly at the N900:
(2) In rescueOS (directly on N900) change the partition table with sfdisk
(2-a)
(3) flash combined (see step 4 in this posting)
(flasher-3.5 -F combined -f -R)
(4) Boot-UP N900, open terminal
(5) FINAL NOTE (and to alert to be cautious about this process!)
fdisk now shows "Partition table entries are not in disk order"
n900:~# fdisk /dev/mmcblk0 The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 977024. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 32.0 GB, 32015122432 bytes 4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 977024 cylinders Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/mmcblk0p1 2 65537 2097152 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/mmcblk0p2 65538 950401 28315648 83 Linux /dev/mmcblk0p3 884866 909441 786432 82 Linux swap /dev/mmcblk0p4 1 1 31+ 83 Linux Partition table entries are not in disk order Command (m for help): x Expert command (m for help): p Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 4 heads, 16 sectors, 977024 cylinders Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID 1 00 0 1 1 3 16 1023 64 4194304 0c 2 00 3 16 1023 3 16 1023 4194368 56631296 83 3 00 3 16 1023 3 16 1023 56631360 1572864 82 4 00 0 2 0 3 16 0 1 63 83 Expert command (m for help):------------------------------------------
LINK: Repartitioning_the_flash http://wiki.maemo.org/Repartitioning_the_flash
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P.S.:
Improvement comments are welcome - this post is intended to be a step-by-step guide having ones own cautious mind active and thinking if one really would like to do this.
As I do not have an empty system any more (getting it back to a normal "beloved" working N900 system again, I am unsure how to find out, how to avoid the partition alignment table problem at the first place - at my N900, though, it does not cause any problems so far).
Last edited by scy; 2014-08-21 at 10:56.