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Title: Moving Root In A Microdrive
Post by: gab74 on April 08, 2005, 11:05:29 am

Good mornig,
 i wander if is it possible to move all Zaurus root / to a microdrive or a compact flash so
all zaurus memory is free and i can use for some other.....

Title: Moving Root In A Microdrive
Post by: guylhem on April 08, 2005, 01:07:25 pm

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Good mornig,
 i wander if is it possible to move all Zaurus root / to a microdrive or a compact flash so
all zaurus memory is free and i can use for some other.....
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it is. But I simply put /opt/ usually - so without the SD I can still boot, only in txt mode

Title: Moving Root In A Microdrive
Post by: gab74 on April 08, 2005, 02:52:04 pm

Please guylhem can you tell me the right procedure for moving  /opt/ to SD ?
Thanks !

Title: Moving Root In A Microdrive
Post by: eddiectc on April 21, 2005, 12:06:12 am

my procedure is tar the opt first, then untar it in the sd, then rm the opt, and make a symlink there
or you can use cp -d to just copy the opt to the sd, then rm the opt, and make a symlink
after all, u need to reboot

cd /mnt/card/sdroot
tar -cvf root.tar /opt
tar -zvf root.tar
rm -rf /opt
ln -s /mnt/card/sdroot/opt /opt

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Please guylhem can you tell me the right procedure for moving  /opt/ to SD ?
Thanks !
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Title: Moving Root In A Microdrive
Post by: aeazocar on September 19, 2005, 03:37:23 am

Hi,

I have been trying to move /opt to SD card; but when I follow eddiectc procedure, I get an error in the command "rm -rf /opt" - read only file system.

Any help will be appreciated.
Alejandro

Title: Moving Root In A Microdrive
Post by: inode0 on September 19, 2005, 10:02:10 am

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I have been trying to move /opt to SD card; but when I follow eddiectc procedure, I get an error in the command "rm -rf /opt" - read only file system.

Any help will be appreciated.

On a 6000 with the stock rom anyway /opt is ro, but I believe if you move /home/QtPalmtop somewhere else and make the symlink from there you achieve the same effect.

John