Two questions if I may...

[padishah_emperor]

I\'ve spent ages searching but can\'t find anything so...

1. Can I hide the contents of my CF and SD cards being displayed from the Documents tab? I remember something called HideCF which I think did it on my 5500, but it don\'t work on my 860, anyone know of a file/setting/config I can change.

2. Does anyone know what /dev/ram1 is? Does it use/wear my internal flash?

Any ideas, pointers or tips etc.

Thanks ;-)

[DrWowe]

1) If you put files in a directory that starts with a dot (like a hidden dir) then it will be excluded.

2) Don\'t know.  I have it too though, and my /dev appears to be mounted from one. It might be the old Linux ramdisk driver which reserves a chunk of RAM (not flash) as a block device.

[padishah_emperor]

1) If you put files in a directory that starts with a dot (like a hidden dir) then it will be excluded.

2) Don\'t know.  I have it too though, and my /dev appears to be mounted from one. It might be the old Linux ramdisk driver which reserves a chunk of RAM (not flash) as a block device.

I thought /dev/ram1 was that, just wanted to be sure. /dev/ram1, /dev/shm and /home appear to be rw, I am trying to move the areas that actively use my internal flash to external devices, I\'d rather wear those out (they can be replaced).

I have been linking the Internal memory /home/zaurus/Documents to /mnt/cf/.Documents since I got my 860 - I was hoping there was a better way coz it\'s a royal PITA when late at night while tired and confused, I use my Z as a USB drive to copy files from my Debian box. I have to enable hidden files under Konqueror etc, it\'s annoying..

There has to be away to hide /mnt/cf/Documents from Qtopia by editing a settings file rather than resorting to making it completely invisible.

Thanks DrWowe

[maslovsky]

Can I hide the contents of my CF and SD cards being displayed from the Documents tab?

Yes, here is what you do:

 - To prevent SD card from appearing in Files tab:

1. Delete the link /home/samba/SD_Card
2. Edit /etc/sdcontrol file, find and comment the following line

 ln -s $MOUNT_POINT $SMB_MOUNT

 - To prevent CF card from appearing in Files tab:

1. Delete the link /home/samba/CF_Card
2. Edit /etc/pcmcia/ide file, find and comment the following line

 ln -s $MOUNT_POINT $SMB_MOUNT

Does anyone know what /dev/ram1 is? Does it use/wear my internal flash?

This is a RAM disk used for /dev filesystem. RAM disk resides in RAM, not Flash...

[padishah_emperor]

Anton, I bow in reverence.... as always...

Cheers my good man ;-)

[DrWowe]

/dev/shm also uses ram, not flash.  It\'s tmpfs, which is the newer ramdisk driver.  It doesn\'t use a fixed size block of ram, instead it adjust its ram usage according to the files that are actually in there.

/dev/shm is mounted with a limit of 1MB.  Since /tmp is a symlink to /dev/shm/tmp, this is way too limiting if you use programs that need space in /tmp (like vi or gcc), so what I do, is mount another tmpfs into /dev/shm/tmp with no limit.  (an alternative would be to remove or increase the size=1m limit from /etc/fstab)

[maslovsky]

/dev/shm also uses ram, not flash.  It\'s tmpfs, which is the newer ramdisk driver.  It doesn\'t use a fixed size block of ram, instead it adjust its ram usage according to the files that are actually in there.

/dev/shm is mounted with a limit of 1MB.  Since /tmp is a symlink to /dev/shm/tmp, this is way too limiting if you use programs that need space in /tmp (like vi or gcc), so what I do, is mount another tmpfs into /dev/shm/tmp with no limit.  (an alternative would be to remove or increase the size=1m limit from /etc/fstab)

If I\'m not mistaken /tmp is limited to 10 Mb not 1 Mb.

[maslovsky]

Anton, I bow in reverence.... as always...

Cheers my good man ;-)

Did it actualy work? I havn\'t tried it myself

[DrWowe]

If I\'m not mistaken /tmp is limited to 10 Mb not 1 Mb.

On my 6000, only 1 meg.  Might vary between models.

[padishah_emperor]

Yeah, sorry, my brain was turned off, I should have mentioned I was using Cacko QT ROM 1.21A, the question only applied to this ROM. It is 10MB on this one.

Maslovsky, I\'m gonna try now......

(and off he goes skipping merrily)

[padishah_emperor]

No, it didn\'t work, tried rebooting but no effect... mmmmh?!?!