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 Jan 27 2007, 04:01 PM
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I'm using an SL C1000 with OZ/GPE and after some tweaking, uninstalling and installing my root partition has arrived at almost 90% use, whereas my home partition sits there at an idle 3%. I know I can always install software to /home, but I was wondering if there is a way (in OZ, I mean) to repartition the internal flash and mount all of it on /, maybe by moving root to sd with altboot, repartition and move root back again? would that work?
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Jan 28 2007, 10:28 AM
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OpenZaurus never supported and will not support resizing of flash partitions.
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Jan 28 2007, 01:04 PM
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QUOTE(Hrw @ Jan 28 2007, 10:28 AM) OpenZaurus never supported and will not support resizing of flash partitions.  That's the second time I read a categorical statement like this on this forum (here is the other one) - would you mind to explain the reasons behind this, Hrw or Koen? - thank you |
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Jan 31 2007, 06:56 PM
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QUOTE(hannes @ Jan 29 2007, 07:04 AM) QUOTE(Hrw @ Jan 28 2007, 10:28 AM) OpenZaurus never supported and will not support resizing of flash partitions. That's the second time I read a categorical statement like this on this forum (here is the other one) - would you mind to explain the reasons behind this, Hrw or Koen? - thank you it's probably because its easier to implement and there are less things that can go wrong if you stick to something that is known and not let users have option to create many different partition sizes and risk user creating absurd partition layouts or sizes. that said, the OZ updater script is rather simple (only looked at the C3000 script). it just whacks the kernel and initrd onto the nand and extract the hdimage to the microdrive. i've secretly written an updater script for OZ using pdaXrom's one as a guide which pops up a menu similar to the pdaXrom one which then allows you to repartition the microdrive. it could easily do the same with the nand, but since the C3000 doesn't have much nand space to play with anyway, i removed the nand options. |
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hannes Root Partition Size Jan 27 2007, 04:01 PM
lardman Someone needs to look at the work the pdaX people ... Jan 28 2007, 07:21 AM
hannes I think it was Koen (correct me if I'm wrong) ... Jan 28 2007, 08:13 AM stupkid QUOTE(Hrw @ Jan 28 2007, 12:28 PM)OpenZaurus ... Jan 28 2007, 11:38 AM Mickeyl Changing the MicroDrive partitioning is much more ... Jan 28 2007, 12:51 PM craigtyson OK been looking for the magic answer. What is the... Nov 21 2008, 12:10 PM Capn_Fish I would suggest just doing a NAND restore from Tri... Nov 21 2008, 07:28 PM craigtyson Cheers, ended up doing just that.
Ta Nov 22 2008, 04:52 AM speculatrix now you know the partition sizes, can you post the... Nov 23 2008, 05:14 AM Capn_Fish I believe
CODEfdisk -l /dev/mtdblk0
or some simila... Nov 23 2008, 08:51 AM craigtyson Outputs are:
Disk /dev/mtdblock0: 7MB 7012352 byt... Nov 24 2008, 04:14 AM |
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