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Bratag 2009-09-16 19:21
Re: N900 Specifications
 
If thats the case the first thing I am goign to do is create a partition on the 30GB spare for swap. I dont like the idea of my swap space being chewed up as I install new programs.

GeneralAntilles 2009-09-16 19:21
Re: N900 Specifications
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jack6428 (Post 328009)
so in other words...i will have just 1gb of space only for applications and the rest will be for movies, music, pictures, etc. ? not that 1gb would be small, but let's say i install alot of games...the space will be filled easily...i understand correctly, right? can this be somehow changed? and if i format my device, can i choose which part it deletes or will it delete everything?
Sure, you could format the whole of the 32GB eMMC ext3 and use it as application storage if you wished, but that 1GB will go farther than you think.

texaslabrat 2009-09-16 19:46
Re: N900 Specifications
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bratag (Post 328025)
If thats the case the first thing I am goign to do is create a partition on the 30GB spare for swap. I dont like the idea of my swap space being chewed up as I install new programs.
Why would swap space be "chewed up" by installing programs? They are separate partitions.

GeneralAntilles 2009-09-16 19:50
Re: N900 Specifications
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bratag (Post 328025)
If thats the case the first thing I am goign to do is create a partition on the 30GB spare for swap. I dont like the idea of my swap space being chewed up as I install new programs.
Swap is on a separate partition, so neither data nor application space will "chew up" swap space. Besides, there's no sane reason to have more than 768MB of swap anyway.

attila77 2009-09-16 20:07
Re: N900 Specifications
 
Also, if the partition layout is known it should be quite doable (not risk free, but still, pretty painless compared to today's cloning) to provide a package that can resize the partitions and filesystems via parted/resize2fs.

attila77 2009-09-16 20:10
Re: N900 Specifications
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles (Post 328054)
Swap is on a separate partition, so neither data nor application space will "chew up" swap space. Besides, there's no sane reason to have more than 768MB of swap anyway.
And in case you for some insane reason DO need more, you can always just add it on through a loop device (hey, if you're filling 768 MB swap, you're far beyond the point of being concerned with performance anyway :) )

ragnar 2009-09-16 20:12
Re: N900 Specifications
 
I think we would have a very positive problem, once for normal users they would have so many useful applications that 1gb of space would start to become an issue.

texaslabrat 2009-09-16 20:14
Re: N900 Specifications
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles (Post 328054)
Swap is on a separate partition, so neither data nor application space will "chew up" swap space. Besides, there's no sane reason to have more than 768MB of swap anyway.
Yeah, 768MB of swap "should be enough for anybody" LOL! j/k

UCOMM 2009-09-16 20:17
Re: N900 Specifications
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by ragnar (Post 328077)
I think we would have a very positive problem, once for normal users they would have so many useful applications that 1gb of space would start to become an issue.


so do as GA says and just format as much as you want for the apps

GeneralAntilles 2009-09-16 20:19
Re: N900 Specifications
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by texaslabrat (Post 328084)
Yeah, 768MB of swap "should be enough for anybody" LOL! j/k
Based on the hardware specifications of the N900, not for all time, of course.


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