Hi Mike: It's OK. If you decide to do it following the wiki, then I think I could help a bit: http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HowTo_EASILY_Boot_From_MMC_card First of all, the two partitions are not exactly a "boot sector" and a "file sector": First partition /dev/mmcblk0p1 is VFAT partition. This means that is where you are going to store files you want to share with other computers. For example, if you want to pass some files from you 770 to your PC or viceversa, then you are going to store them in the VFAT partition, since it is compatible with any Windows system, and of course, a Linux system. So that think of the VFAT partition as a transition to move files from one place to another. That is my suggestion of course. You may also store them there permanently, of course. It depends on your security concerns, since VFAT partition is not a Linux partition. Second partition /dev/mmcblk0p2 is going to be ROOT partition. This means that is where the whole system is going to be installed. This is not just a BOOT partition. This is where all the applications are going to be installed. For me, that I like to install as many applications as I may need in my system, this is the most important one. I have given to that partition the maximum size available. I want to install more and more apps like OCTAVE, GNUMERIC, ABIWORD, etc without having problems of space. If I were you, I would dedicate 1GB to the first VFAT partition. That is enough to move big files from/to the MMC to/from the PC. Then another 1GB for the second partition, that is the root partition, that is the whole system. If you do not need to move so huge files, you could reduce your first VFAT partition to 600MB or so. That is up to you. My personal case is that of a 1GB MMC, so that I've got 128MB for the first VFAT partition, and the rest for the second (and for me more important) root partition. Tell us your choice and any problem you may have implementing it. Salut, Sebas. 2007/10/22, Mike Mellor <alaskamike at gmail.com>: > > Can I reduce the size of the boot partition? I would like to have more > than 500M available for files. > > On 10/22/07, Frantisek Dufka < dufkaf at seznam.cz> wrote: > > > > Mike Mellor wrote: > > > I am a new 770 user. I read that moving the filesystem to the media > > > card improves the computer's performance. Is this really a big > > > improvement, or can I use the entire card for files (movies)? > > > > Major improvement is visible only with custom kernel > > http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/#mmcplus > > Please note that it doesn't work with every card. It works for me with > > Kingston 2GB MMCmobile, YMMV. > > > > With default nokia kernel is is about the same. Maybe it feels slightly > > more responsible due to lower CPU usage (flash filesystem is compressed, > > mmc card is not) but it is not substantial. > > > > The main advantage is easier recovery in case something goes wrong and > > more space for applications (depends on size you choose for root ext2 > > partition). > > > > See > > http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto_easily_boot_from_mmc_card/ > > or bottom of > > http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto_bootrootfsfrommmc/ > > > > Frantisek > > > > > _______________________________________________ > maemo-users mailing list > maemo-users at maemo.org > https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20071022/8b16603c/attachment.htm
