Neil,

I think the biggest benefit is that reflashing the device won't lose your personal documents, settings and installed applications.

Of course, upgrading the OS runs the risk that part of your mirrored filesystem is supposed to be different, and you'll end up with weird and unexpected problems. Most likely to be a problem when 2006 OS comes out.

HTH,

Andrew

How can you tell if the swapfile is on or off?

type "free" in Xterm.

Just giving Wolfram his due credit
 

Wolfram Rocks. He really makes this upgrade easy to do. Everyone who has a Nokia 770 needs to do this upgrade and do his recomended swap file method

Just upgraded to the 2006 OS and already I am starting to miss the extended root fs. Was wondering if Wolfram is going to recompile the deb he wrote for the 2005 OS into the new 2006 OS. Also I am wondering if unionfs would work easier and better with the new 2006 OS.

UnionFS is a much *much* better idea.

Although you won't be able to use it for installed applications now, as the 3rd party debs are installed into /, intermingling them with the OS-proper.

Andrew-

I would have thought you could simply create a number of unions for each of the most likely installation points (such as /usr/bin).

Not as easy but it should be possible. Of course maybe that means you couldn't easily boot without the union installed?

Brad.

True, you could unionise /usr to get more space. Without the MMC you'd still boot to a largely vanilla 2006 OS, however there'd be some cruft in /etc, /var/lib/dpkg etc.

Still, might be worth trying...

get script
 

I've upgraded to 2006 but in the process lost the script. Until a new package is built could someone please post the script for copying & pasting?

Is this it here, extendedroot

Does anyone know how unionfs is coming along for IT2006?

Rich