Only root partition (wish)

[Ashley]

As many of you have noticed, new pdaXrom has many \"disk\" space problems. I love it\'s true Unix layout, much better than Qtopia, wich I wasn\'t able to understood completely and seemed me horrible. I think much of the performance improvement of this rom should be due to the new plain structure, without compressed volumes, ramdisk, etc.

The problem is that it keeps the partition structure of Qtopia, despite it\'s a nonsense now to split /home from /. In Qtopia, it makes sense because apps are installed under /home. In the new rom apps are installed in /usr, thus in root partition.

So, when you install some apps you\'ll run out of root space soon, while /home keeps unused. The first solution would be to increase, much more than cacko recommends, the root partition with the installer. However I\'ve been trying it and does not work. Installer does things wrong if you instruct to do this. It seems that it can\'t format and flash a big root partition.

I don\'t know if I can get installer source code in order to see what it does and change it. My wish would be to get just one large root partition. I don\'t know if it\'s doable.

Unfortunately, I have another big problem with the new rom: I use gnumeric for my daily work. I need one spreadsheet. I\'ve tried to put gnumeric from the previous feed to the new rom, but it crashes. Seem to have a problem with libgsf (of course, it is installed). Does new rom use a different glibc version or so?

And as a commentary, I don\'t like matchbox, I wanna see my desktop! I liked much more Rox...

Ash.

[jerrybme]

Can\'t you install to SD and symlink to /usr?

I agree with you on matchbox at first go, perhaps after I play with it more I\'ll figure out how to customize it like I want. I also liked Fluxbox that was ported  for previous ROM, it gave you easy access to multiple desktops.

Cheers,

Jerry

[lardman]

Yep, I\'ve just run into this problem.

I have / set at 35Mb. Can I resize without having to reflash? Can I resize at all (seeing what was said above)?

I\'ve been running OZ with c.1Mb of flash memory available for various important but small files (such as PIM data) so I am feeling a little kenophobic (http://www.phobialist.com/ ;-)) with 25Mb or so doing nothing in /home.

Any suggestions?


Si

[ChrisEBoy]

You can increase the root partition to about 60mb.  I\'m running this successfully at the moment.  I believe it\'s an integer length issue, so you may be able to get between 60 and 63.  It makes a large difference.  Now I have all the \"main\" apps I need, the rest I can load onto sd.

Si: You can resize but not without having to flash I think.  It didn\'t work well for me.

[lardman]

Cheers Chris,

Si