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tama is offline tama
2007-07-10 , 17:26
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I haven't read this tip any where hence I thought I should put it here.

1. Start an xterm
2. insert following command in xterm
ln -s / /home/user/Mydocs/root
3. exit xterm

Now you can browse all directories using file manager, just tap on "root" in file manager and you will be taken to root.

For non unix guys, the above command creats a symbolic link to root.
 
Joschi is offline Joschi
2007-07-10 , 18:20
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thnx for this feature!!

But the path must be "MyDocs" with capital D:
ln -s / /home/user/MyDocs/root

maybe only in my (german) version !?

Joschi
 

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2007-07-10 , 18:21
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Great tip!
I don't know why I didn't think about using ln on my n800 before.
Thanks!
 
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2007-07-10 , 18:43
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I'm only wondering, but are there any issues doing backups? I'd be concerned about backing up the whole filesystem by mistake, possibly recursively. Is there any risk of this? If not, are symbolic or hard links preferable?
 
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2007-07-10 , 18:47
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If I'm not mistaken, this can cause metalayer-crawler to go in some sort of loop and use all your cpu power. Anyone else noticed similar?
 

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adammelancon is offline adammelancon
2007-07-10 , 19:50
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Originally Posted by ukki View Post
If I'm not mistaken, this can cause metalayer-crawler to go in some sort of loop and use all your cpu power. Anyone else noticed similar?
HA! I JUST found that problem!
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=978#c4

Was wondering why my N800 was so slow, the metalayer-crawler was going balistic searching through the root folder... oh well, would have been a neat hack.
Perhaps you can exclude that /home/user/MyDocs/root folder somewhere in the Dameon config for metalayer-crawler?
 
tama is offline tama
2007-07-10 , 20:04
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What is metalayer-crawler ? I do not see any such process when I do "ps ax| grep meta".

I also do not see any difference in memory/cpu usage.

Is metalayer-crawler some n800 feature ? (Mine is n770).
 
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2007-07-10 , 21:28
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It's a "feature" of the OS2007 media player which indexes the metadata (e.g. ID3 tags on MP3 files) of media files and presents a library-based, rather than file-based view of your songs/videos etc.
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2007-07-10 , 21:43
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Oh... NOW I understand why the N800 is acting so slow and the battery charge is disappearing!

What I have to do to undo this command?

Regards

EDIT: Solved! Go to xterm and inside MyDocs remove the root file...
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tama is offline tama
2007-07-11 , 01:43
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Is there a way to stop/disable metacrawler ?

I will be buying a 2GB mmc and make it dual boot with IT2007. So I will need to either disable the metacrawler or not have this link. I will prefer to keep the link and remove/disable the metacrawler.
 
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