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Title: Openzaurus File System Layout Questions
Post by: oninitdialog on March 08, 2005, 07:29:21 am

I have been using Various different OpenZaurus Versions for over a year now and I am very happy with them. Usually after installation I move the /opt folder to /mnt/ram and create a link to it. I know this is dangerous and I proved that to my self today, whilst carrying my Z in my pocket it must have performed a reset which emptied the contents of /mnt/ram and now OPIE does not start up. (My fault I know and luckily I have been using ozone to create images).
I do have a 256Meg SD card formatted as ext2 but I still want the ability to remove the card and put others in without loosing all of OPIE.

My question is how do other people partition up their OZ installations on the SL5500?

Title: Openzaurus File System Layout Questions
Post by: lardman on March 08, 2005, 07:33:17 am

Leave /opt (and everything else) in root; install packages to /mnt/card. Easy as that.

Any packages which you want to use while the card is removed, install to root. You can remove some of the pre-installed packages so that you have enough room for this (packages which you won't want to use when the card's not in there) and install them to the card.


Simon

Title: Openzaurus File System Layout Questions
Post by: oninitdialog on March 08, 2005, 08:41:35 am

Ok that sounds good but which zimages do you use? ie 32-32 or 40-24 etc.

Donald.

Title: Openzaurus File System Layout Questions
Post by: lardman on March 08, 2005, 09:12:12 am

I use 64-0 so that I can have as much memory available as possible - plus I have a large SD card so in any case I have no need to use a RAM-disk.


Si

Title: Openzaurus File System Layout Questions
Post by: CoreDump on March 10, 2005, 10:45:22 am

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I use 64-0 so that I can have as much memory available as possible - plus I have a large SD card so in any case I have no need to use a RAM-disk.


Si
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And if you really need a RAM disk with a 64/0 kernel, just do the following:

rm -f /mnt/ram
mkdir /var/ram
ln -s /var/ram /mnt/ram

/var is mounted as tmpfs (ie: it's a RAM disk) so it's basically the same.
But nothing comes for free. For every byte you copy into /var you loose one
byte of system RAM.