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2013-12-02
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I recently repartitioned also, but I made a bit more extensive changes;
So this is how my partitition table looks like:
The partition assignments are;
Currently all are formatted as ext4, but as soon as I get btrfs support on ubiboot I am going to try that on my device...
- I wanted to have more partitions for different OS'es
- I was constantly running out of space on my /home so I increased that also to 4G
- altough it is OK to have the partitions in mixed order, I like them nice and stacked, hence I put MyDocs as last partition
So this is how my partitition table looks like:
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~ # ~ # /sbin/sfdisk -l Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 1957120 cylinders, 4 heads, 16 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 32768 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/mmcblk0p1 16 131087 131072 4194304 83 Linux /dev/mmcblk0p2 131088 262159 131072 4194304 83 Linux /dev/mmcblk0p3 262160 393231 131072 4194304 83 Linux /dev/mmcblk0p4 393232 1957119 1563888 50044416 5 Extended /dev/mmcblk0p5 393232+ 524303 131072- 4194296 83 Linux /dev/mmcblk0p6 524304+ 655375 131072- 4194296 83 Linux /dev/mmcblk0p7 655376+ 1957119 1301744- 41655800 83 Linux ~ #
- p1, home, 4GB
- p2, rootfs, 4GB
- p3, Nemo, 4GB
- p5, Sailfish, 4GB
- p6, Ubuntu, 4GB
- p7, MyDocs, 40GB
Currently all are formatted as ext4, but as soon as I get btrfs support on ubiboot I am going to try that on my device...
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2013-12-02
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I have 16GB version and i wanted to have Harmattan, Nemo and Sailfish booting from different partitions. I made one for Nemo and one for Sailfish. My table looks like this:
Where
MyDocs 4,5Gb (I dont have that much media there)
rootfs 4,0Gb
home 2,0Gb
Alt_OS 2,5Gb (for Nemo)
Sailfish 2,5 Gb
I made it with KDE Partition Manager. You can see that there is some unused space, but I'm fine with it....
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Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 15.8 GB, 15896412160 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 485120 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1 252 148100 4731142+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/mmcblk0p2 288513 419584 4194304 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p3 419585 485120 2097152 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p4 148100 288417 4490167+ 5 Extended
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary
/dev/mmcblk0p5 148101 212109 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p6 212110 288417 2441848+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
MyDocs 4,5Gb (I dont have that much media there)
rootfs 4,0Gb
home 2,0Gb
Alt_OS 2,5Gb (for Nemo)
Sailfish 2,5 Gb
I made it with KDE Partition Manager. You can see that there is some unused space, but I'm fine with it..
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2013-12-02
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Originally Posted by juiceme
A bit OT but did you get ubuntu running on N9 ?
~ # [/CODE]
The partition assignments are;
- p1, home, 4GB
- p2, rootfs, 4GB
- p3, Nemo, 4GB
- p5, Sailfish, 4GB
- p6, Ubuntu, 4GB
- p7, MyDocs, 40GB
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2013-12-02
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Originally Posted by evander_f
http://www.thegadgetfreak.net/2012/0...ioning-n9.html
Could you link me to a small guide on re partitioning the N9, i cant install Nemo on my N9 16GB, its says 'repartitioning failed' in Moslo.
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2013-12-03
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@evander_f
Were you successful?
Afaik the moslo auto repartitioning should also work on a 16GB version version, assuming you have enough free space on MyDocs, which needs to be > 4 GB. So maybe just free some space on p1 and try again.
Were you successful?
Afaik the moslo auto repartitioning should also work on a 16GB version version, assuming you have enough free space on MyDocs, which needs to be > 4 GB. So maybe just free some space on p1 and try again.
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2013-12-24
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This is my first post here. I've googled my way here many times, looking for some N900 or N9 detail or another in a hurry, but I don't like to have to make web accounts to participate (total nuisance + anti-freedom). I obviously broke down and made an account to post this though, as I've been working on exactly this for a few days now. I've long had an N900 (2 actually), followed by an N9 as well, and never started doing as much as I'd have liked with them until recently (for various pathetic reasons) :( I'm so late digging in deep that it's really a major pain now, considering how Nokia double shafted us loyal, high-end, "phree phonix" customers and all. All the resources I expected to be available are fragmented, broken and/or gone. It's a real spit in the face after having spent some $1800 on their [nice] **** in the last fourish years. Dicks! Oh, what could have been... Real tragedy and all that. Anyway, most of the "docs" for this stuff at least half suck, all Winblows perspective ruined and so on too. And, in this case, they all say "hexaboot" and ****, but then use Nemo's moslo initrd to repartition a SINGLE extra partition (which, of course lamely prevents all the hexaboot boasting). I like things proper and comprehensive. Anyway, here's my N9 filesystem config so far (as seen from my notebook), but I'm not really happy with it yet. I'll probably redo/modify it at least once over the next few days (I haven't laid OSs onto the partitions yet - I did, however, temporarily install Nitdroid into /home/nitdroid [blech!]).
Partition assignments are;
p1, Meego MyDocs, 5GiB
p2, Meego /, 4GiB
p3, Meego /home, 2GiB
p5, Debian, 4GiB
p6, Nemo Mobile, 4GiB
p7, Sailfish OS, 4GiB
p8, Firefox OS, 4GiB
p9, Nitdroid, 4GiB
p10, shared space, 28.7GiB
And I made the filesystems as follows (suggestions for better, minimal risk eMMC tuning improvements welcome).
I patched parted 2.4 (the last version to support filesystem operations like resize, etc.) for a gets bug, introduced via more modern gnulibs, and compiled it on my notebook for said purpose (that moslo initrd "one trick resize pony" was out of the question [though I did examine its autopartition.sh script a bit] -- and it isn't really a "partition resizing wizard" [lol] anyway, y'all; it's a bootloader, at least ostensibly!). What tool abuse?! Besides, I didn't want to be stuck working in some ramdisk anyway. I considered lots of options before fixing up an old parted on my notebook, but that seemed the best approach for me.
The only thing that's really still annoying me is partition alignment. I'm setting this all up via sectors (so, no spooky, automagic hand holding crap) and, unfortunately, the N9 reports insufficient alignment info...
...and it's still unhappy with some of the partitions even using 512 byte fallback divisibility. And, of course, my notebook and the N9 itself give different surface lies about its qeometry as well. So, essentially, all "authoritative" information sources are either withholding essential info, lying about it, or both. (lol) If anyone knows its preferred offset information, I'm ready to move on, but I'll keep banging my head as necessary, of course. :) What an unnecessary, largely inexcusable hassle. I don't want to automagic pray it into approximate place. I want to put it *exactly* where I want it via accurate information! Guess I'm unreasonable in 2013, eh (news flash - lol).
Also, I'll almost certainly switch that MyDocs partition to ext4 at some point soonish, (vfat? really? blech!) and maybe combine it with /home. I'd like to change its stupid Winblows originated name too, but I'd have to dig around for lots of hardcoded breakage first, and maybe never find it all. Ug. And I'd like to put the three original filesystems into a sane order too; root first, of course. Vfat MyDocs (double blech!) is partition one?!!1111 Really? What kind of Winblows cretins did they have designing on this thing? I love it, warts and all, of course, but this stuff is downright offensive to the sensibilities. And don't even let me start on that aegis Treacherous Computing BS. Grr!!!!!
Anyway, sorry I blathered and bitched so much along the way here, but I've built up a lot of issues all isolated in my cave over the years. lol ;)
L8r -K
Last edited by amonk; 2013-12-24 at 04:00. Reason: Errors, some my fault, most this gdam website timing out my session! Grr.
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[root@zardoz] ~/Nokia-N9> parted /dev/sdb unit s print Model: Linux File-CD Gadget (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 125255680s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1024s 10486783s 10485760s primary fat32 lba 4 10486784s 112672767s 102185984s extended lba 5 10487808s 18876415s 8388608s logical ext4 6 18877440s 27266047s 8388608s logical ext4 7 27267072s 35655679s 8388608s logical ext4 8 35656704s 44045311s 8388608s logical ext4 9 44046336s 52434943s 8388608s logical ext4 10 52435968s 112672767s 60236800s logical ext4 2 112672768s 121061375s 8388608s primary ext4 3 121061376s 125255679s 4194304s primary ext4
p1, Meego MyDocs, 5GiB
p2, Meego /, 4GiB
p3, Meego /home, 2GiB
p5, Debian, 4GiB
p6, Nemo Mobile, 4GiB
p7, Sailfish OS, 4GiB
p8, Firefox OS, 4GiB
p9, Nitdroid, 4GiB
p10, shared space, 28.7GiB
And I made the filesystems as follows (suggestions for better, minimal risk eMMC tuning improvements welcome).
Code:
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdbX -I 128 -E discard -G 32 -L LabelX -O flex_bg,^huge_file tune2fs -E mount_opts=journal_async_commit -o discard,acl,user_xattr /dev/sdbX
The only thing that's really still annoying me is partition alignment. I'm setting this all up via sectors (so, no spooky, automagic hand holding crap) and, unfortunately, the N9 reports insufficient alignment info...
Code:
cat /sys/block/mmcblk0/alignment_offset = 0 cat /sys/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p1/alignment_offset = 0 cat /sys/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p2/alignment_offset = 0 cat /sys/block/mmcblk0/mmcblk0p3/alignment_offset = 0 cat /sys/block/mmcblk0/queue/physical_block_size = 512 cat /sys/block/mmcblk0/queue/logical_block_size = 512 cat /sys/block/mmcblk0/queue/minimum_io_size = 512 cat /sys/block/mmcblk0/queue/optimal_io_size = 0
Also, I'll almost certainly switch that MyDocs partition to ext4 at some point soonish, (vfat? really? blech!) and maybe combine it with /home. I'd like to change its stupid Winblows originated name too, but I'd have to dig around for lots of hardcoded breakage first, and maybe never find it all. Ug. And I'd like to put the three original filesystems into a sane order too; root first, of course. Vfat MyDocs (double blech!) is partition one?!!1111 Really? What kind of Winblows cretins did they have designing on this thing? I love it, warts and all, of course, but this stuff is downright offensive to the sensibilities. And don't even let me start on that aegis Treacherous Computing BS. Grr!!!!!
Anyway, sorry I blathered and bitched so much along the way here, but I've built up a lot of issues all isolated in my cave over the years. lol ;)
L8r -K
Last edited by amonk; 2013-12-24 at 04:00. Reason: Errors, some my fault, most this gdam website timing out my session! Grr.
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2013-12-24
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Also, how much total flash memory your N9 has (16 or 64G) is definitely irrelevant to the autopartition.sh script in moslo's initrd... and it's actual size requirements are...
Finally, your error message doesn't say, "'repartitioning failed," evander_f. That string doesn't exist. It says something *like* that, however, I'm sure. Accuracy matters. If you provide the actual [complete and exact] message, I can probably pretty easily tell you *why* it's failing. :)
Last edited by amonk; 2013-12-24 at 03:57. Reason: Clarity
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### Calculate and check partition sizes and limits
MIN_HARM_FREE_SPACE=$(($NEWPART_SIZE+500*$BLOCKS_PER_MEG)) # require 500 Megs empty space
MIN_HARM_PART_SIZE=$(($NEWPART_SIZE+3000*$BLOCKS_PER_MEG)) # require 3000 Megs after re-partition
if [ $HARM_PART_SIZE -gt $MIN_HARM_PART_SIZE -a $HARM_FREE_SPACE -gt $MIN_HARM_FREE_SPACE ]; then
Last edited by amonk; 2013-12-24 at 03:57. Reason: Clarity
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2013-12-24
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Welcome aboard amonk.
What did you want to tell us???
One thing about amounts of partitions on N9/00:
it does not make sense to create more than 7 partitions (incl. the extended one) due to restrictions of kernel to 8 mmcblk0 devices. Fix exists, but would need self compiled kernel ...
Last edited by peterleinchen; 2013-12-24 at 11:50.
What did you want to tell us???
One thing about amounts of partitions on N9/00:
it does not make sense to create more than 7 partitions (incl. the extended one) due to restrictions of kernel to 8 mmcblk0 devices. Fix exists, but would need self compiled kernel ...
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Last edited by peterleinchen; 2013-12-24 at 11:50.
i kind of hated that on the nokia N9 there are 3 partitions:
So i figured out you could use sfdisk to reformat the partitions while running in harmattan (openmode, don't know if that matters, but i think it doesn't) and even use ext3 or something else as partition type for the new partitions you might add. If you dont want to add a partition you can just set the partition type of partition 1 to Linux, will work just as good but i liked to have a small FAT partition for swapping files between operating systems at home, university and so on...
my partition table looks like this now:
But only the first partition gets registered to a host if connected via usb so i changed /etc/usb-moded/usb-moded.ini to this:
to use sfdisk to change the first partition use this command (after devel-su):
and to modify the 4 partition use (obviously):
for the fourth partition for start use the end of the first partition +1 and size again something you like (probably everything that is left) and type can be anything you like, i choose L which automatically uses a Linux type for the partition.
step by step execution should look something like this:
(i created this log after i did the setup on my device so the settings where already there, the sfdisk output should be different for you, partition 4 most likely won't exist yet).
After rebooting you can format the partitions using the mkfs commands, like (after devel-su):
Last edited by liar; 2013-12-02 at 15:24.