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 > -- Iain B. Findleton Tel: 514-457-0744 _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community