Re: Partitionning separate /home/ floder to SD

2008-10-20 Thread Linus Gasser
Joel Newkirk a écrit : 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) Did the same thing here (swapped swap and home). This is the important part of

Re: Partitionning separate /home/ floder to SD

2008-10-20 Thread Alastair Johnson
Linus Gasser wrote: Joel Newkirk a écrit : 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) Did the same thing here (swapped swap and home). This is

Re: Partitionning separate /home/ floder to SD

2008-10-20 Thread Iain B. Findleton
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

Re: Partitionning separate /home/ floder to SD

2008-10-20 Thread Vikas Saurabh
Flash has limited writes in its lifetime. That is why we have special filesystems for flash [1],[2] (e.g. jffs2). ext3 (due to its journalling) might not be good idea for Sd-card. I think ext2 would fare fine except that it might be left with corrupted FS in case improper shutdown but at least it

Re: Partitionning separate /home/ floder to SD

2008-10-20 Thread BS - João Vieira
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

Re: Partitionning separate /home/ floder to SD

2008-10-20 Thread Alastair Johnson
Vikas Saurabh wrote: Flash has limited writes in its lifetime. That is why we have special filesystems for flash [1],[2] (e.g. jffs2). ext3 (due to its journalling) might not be good idea for Sd-card. I think ext2 would fare fine except that it might be left with corrupted FS in case

Partitionning separate /home/ floder to SD

2008-10-19 Thread BS - João Vieira
Hi, Tryed to find in the threads but no luck. 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? The idea is to have the

Re: Partitionning separate /home/ floder to SD

2008-10-19 Thread Andy Selby
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

Re: Partitionning separate /home/ floder to SD

2008-10-19 Thread Joel Newkirk
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