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09-11-2010 , 07:47 AM
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I am running out of space for Applications and Games... I just had to uninstall Wargus II, is there anyway to redirect the files that PrBoom, Quake 2, Duke Nukem 3D use? OpenArena is taking up 300MB alone... I need help...
 
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09-11-2010 , 08:03 AM
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I've just re-flashed my device using a modified eMMC image. I now have 8GB /home (/opt) partition (the extra space on /home are taken from the MyDocs partition).

Create a backup, move it off Your device and re-flash using a modified eMMC image.

!! You have to flash using both images - combined and eMMC !!

I can't distribute the image, but You can edit it Yourself using a Hex editor. More info here.

Code:
N900:~# df -h /home
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2        7,9G  2,2G  5,3G  30% /home
This is how it looks in "Hex Editor" (on Ubuntu):
Name: screenshot_123.jpg Views: 258 Size: 24.7 KB

Name: screenshot_124.jpeg Views: 249 Size: 9.5 KB

Change from 2048 to anything up to 9999.
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09-11-2010 , 08:48 AM
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Thank you - is there anyway to do this without wiping out the device?
 
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09-11-2010 , 09:50 AM
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Thank you - is there anyway to do this without wiping out the device?
Not AFAIK... I've had the N900 since December and only re-flashed it twice. When PR1.2 came out and I thought I'd give it a "fresh start", and now because I wanted more space in /home.
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09-11-2010 , 10:31 AM
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I haven't tried myself, but I believe it should be possible to move certain directories from /home or /opt into /home/user/MyDocs and make symlinks pointing to the latter, as long as those directories don't contain executables or other symlinks, which the FAT of MyDocs would not support.
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09-11-2010 , 10:35 AM
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I haven't tried myself, but I believe it should be possible to move certain directories from /home or /opt into /home/user/MyDocs and make symlinks pointing to the latter, as long as those directories don't contain executables or other symlinks, which the FAT of MyDocs would not support.
I didn't want to maintain various symlinks so I went with the modified eMMC image instead. I had like 25GB free space in MyDocs anyway...

8GB in /home should be fine for now...
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09-11-2010 , 10:41 AM
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Originally Posted by rebhana View Post
I haven't tried myself, but I believe it should be possible to move certain directories from /home or /opt into /home/user/MyDocs and make symlinks pointing to the latter, as long as those directories don't contain executables or other symlinks, which the FAT of MyDocs would not support.
Could you go into more detail? Most of my space is being taken up by games such as Quake 3 (300MB), Quake 2 (175MB), etc.
 
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09-11-2010 , 10:55 AM
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@DrWilken thanks for the tip.. you also able to increase ram(swap)! i did
 
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@DrWilken thanks for the tip.. you also able to increase ram(swap)! i did
Thought about that too, but I've never hit the limit... Have You?

EDIT -> I actually thought about increasing it to 1024MB just because it's a nicer number... (4x256)
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Thought about that too, but I've never hit the limit... Have You?

EDIT -> I actually thought about increasing it to 1024MB just because it's a nicer number... (4x256)
Well yes and no.. its complicated (When swap starts to get full.. like more then 50% then device runs abit slower) so I wanted to give it more head room so hopefully it wont pass 30% I pushed it a little beyond that... We'll see how it behave when I redo all my tweeks.

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