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Model Specific Forums => Sharp Zaurus => Zaurus - pdaXrom => Topic started by: mabrown on March 08, 2005, 11:34:03 am
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Hi Everyone,
For the first time today, I have started installing apps on my SD card rather than to internal flash. I decided to do this because Firefox, Mozilla and some other apps were maxing out the internal flash on my C860. I have a 1GB SanDisk SD card which I have formatted as an 860MB ext2 partition (part1) and the remainder as swap (I've been getting into compiling natively and thought the swap might come in handy.)
What do you all recommend as a decent partitioning scheme for this sort of thing? Is the swap over the top? Also, to what extent can packages installed by the pdaXrom installer to internal flash be moved to SD? Anything that must not be touched? Is there any advantage / penalty in doing this performance wise?
Finally, I think I have a problem with my partitioning on the SD. ROX filer indicates that /mnt/card is only 120MB. I have the 860MB partition (part1) mounted as 'card.' Typing 'df' in a terminal indicates:
/dev/mmcd/disc0/part1 121971 (1k-blocks) 21930 (used) /mnt/card
... but fdisk says:
/dev/mmcd/disc0/part1 1 (start) 830 (end) 836608 (blocks)
Can anyone tell me where all those megabytes have gone?
All the best,
Mark Brown