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titan	2010-02-10 , 13:54
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macports uses a similar approach and I like it

Originally Posted by javispedro

Have you read of Gobolinux in user mode?

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dthoaforum	2010-02-13 , 21:27
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Sorry for nood question. Follow the guide of 白い熊, We will have 2GB FAT partition and the rest is ext3. If we save the data in ext3, how can Windows read that data? I'm Windows user, should I leave 6GB-10GB FAT partition.
thanks.

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白い熊	2010-02-14 , 07:56
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You can read ext2/3 in Windoze, google for it.

If you wanna write to the partition from Windoze keep it at vfat.

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titan	2010-02-14 , 10:28
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Originally Posted by dthoaforum

Sorry for nood question. Follow the guide of 白い熊, We will have 2GB FAT partition and the rest is ext3. If we save the data in ext3, how can Windows read that data? I'm Windows user, should I leave 6GB-10GB FAT partition.
thanks.

If you're a windows user, why do you need to repartition in the first place?
By default the ext3 /home would be USB exported to Windows,
but you must not try to access it from Windows because N900 and Windows
would access it simultaneously which would lead to fs corruption.
If you swap the first and second partition you'd need to modify the USB scripts as well.

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dthoaforum	2010-02-21 , 00:01
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Since 2GB is not enough for me to install apps (easy debian is already about 1.5GB :-( ), I would like to increase that space. Could you please point me to any complete script/tutorial to do that? (I'm not afraid of reflashing device)
Thanks

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CaSPeRFXX	2010-02-21 , 12:09
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canyou post pictures and instructions since i need to repartition mine aswell

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Graham Cobb	2010-02-22 , 22:51
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I have been running with a loopback file for /home/user/MyDocs (and a large ext3 partition) for some time now. However, I have just discovered that the Backup application doesn't work any more!

/home/user/MyDocs/backups exists (and contains several previous backups) but when I run the backup application it displays "No memory card inserted" and doesn't show anything.

I can neither create a backup or restore one.

Anyone got any ideas?

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yoush	2010-02-26 , 21:23
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Just in case somebody in this thread could be interested, I described my repartitioning experience at https://garage.maemo.org/plugins/wik...id=1382&type=g

That is about how to shrink MyDocs and use that space for extra partitions, while keeping the system as compatible with the original as possible.

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Graham Cobb	2010-02-27 , 00:46
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Originally Posted by Graham Cobb

I have been running with a loopback file for /home/user/MyDocs (and a large ext3 partition) for some time now. However, I have just discovered that the Backup application doesn't work any more!

I still haven't worked out how to persuade osso-backup to look in the loopback /home/user/MyDocs but I have discovered that I can take backups to an SD card (as long as it has a VFAT filesystem on the first partition and gets mounted by the system as /media/mmc1). osso-backup seems to be very fussy as to where it is willing to look for backups.