On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:49:43 +0100 Davide Scaini <dsca...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For Android to work properly the Micro SD Card in your FreeRunner needs to > have 2 primary partitions. The first needs to be a VFAT/MSDOS (16 or 32) > partition which is used is mounted as '/sdcard', this is used as a storage > area (for pictures, movies, music, etc). The second is an ext3 partition > which Android mounts as '/data', this is where it stores settings, caches, > etc. > > Experience has shown that sizing these at a ratio of 3 to 1 works best. So > if you have a 4GB card make a 3GB vfat partition and a 1GB ext3 partion. Interestingly my android install does not seem to use the ext3 partition - looks like I wasted some sdcard space making that? This is an install from ran's cupcake image:- # mount rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0 tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0 proc /proc proc rw 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals tmpfs rw,size=4096k 0 0 /dev/block/mtdblock6 /system jffs2 ro 0 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/block/mtdblock7 /data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 -- David Matthews m...@dmatthews.org _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community