I just did as L. Gasser said, it's working fine, i notice some "slowlyness" in xTerm in the neo when working in /home/ "area" but it's no big deal.
Used gParted to make partitions, and used ext2 instead of ext3 thanks guys J On Monday 20 October 2008, Iain B. Findleton wrote: > All that works just fine, particularly the use of a swap partiton which > eliminates the slowing of the FR with time. I also made /usr/local point > to the uSD so that any applications I install are not affected by > changes to the flashed stuff. > > I notice little negative effects by putting as much as possible on the > uSD. I did appear to observe that using ext3 on the uSD partitions > appears to be faster than using FAT file systems, however. That is just > an impression as I have not run any tests. > > Joel Newkirk wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:39:34 +0100, "Andy Selby" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Is there a way that /home/ is in my SD card? Only /home/, like we do in > >> > >> Linux > >> > >>> distributions... so I can flash whenever i want the Neo without loosing > >>> configuration files, icons and stuff I am adapting for myself in the > >> > >> Neo? > >> > >> Did you try > >> #link /media/card/home /home > > > > Actually that'd be 'ln'... ;) > > > > The solution I suspect Andy is seeking is to alter /etc/fstab: > > /dev/mmcblk0p1 /media/card auto defaults,async,noauto 0 0 > > change to > > /dev/mmcblk0p1 /home auto defaults,async,noauto 0 0 > > > > This replaces /home in the filesystem with the contents of the first > > partition on the uSD. (note that if the /home folder already exists that > > this will effectively redirect /home to the uSD without touching the > > 'local' /home, so that if the uSD is removed, corrupted, etc, and doesn't > > mount, there's still a /home/root folder, just without everything you > > customized and added while on the uSD) > > > > When (if) I get my FR where I plan to retain the same installation > > long-term, I intend to carve up the 8gb uSD and have /dev/mmcblk0p3 as > > /home. (partition #2 as swap, #1 as alternate boot) > > > > j > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > community@lists.openmoko.org > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community