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Re: Repartition the internal drive

oh i'll fix it thx guys ;) it's about swap partition that didn't mount and do it with mkswap . DONE

Re: Repartition the internal drive

A newbie guide out of the question?

Re: Repartition the internal drive

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Originally Posted by Tiptronic (Post 884452)

A newbie guide out of the question?

Can i have one aswell please, or unless Radicalz38 would upload his modified firmware so i could flash my device? Cheers.

Re: Repartition the internal drive

Here is my modified eMMC binary for 5GB home partition:
http://www.anonym.to/?http://tonev.n...HOME_MICRO.bin
MD5SUM: d9e7e78e720c09a3a2d5921f4621e71a

Re: Repartition the internal drive

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Originally Posted by Tiptronic (Post 884452)

A newbie guide out of the question?

Open the emmc image with a hex editor and change 2048 to what ever you want, then flash the phone using that image.

Easy to do, just make sure you take a backup first.

Re: Repartition the internal drive

Hi everybody...
I could need some help here.

I'm on PR1.3 and therefore
tried solution #7 from the wiki but I used a different filetable
see, below

Code:

unit: sectors

/dev/mmcblk0p1 : start=       64, size= 39854080, Id= c

/dev/mmcblk0p2 : start= 39854144, size= 16777216, Id= 5

/dev/mmcblk0p3:  start= 56631360, size=  4194304, Id=83

/dev/mmcblk0p4 : start= 60825664, size=  1572864, Id=82

/dev/mmcblk0p5 : start= 39854160, size=  9765680, Id=83

/dev/mmcblk0p6 : start= 49619856, size=  7011504, Id=83

my question is now, will my phone find /home on mmcblk0p3 or will it look for it on mmcblk0p2 as this was the default partion? Wich leads to my next question; do I probably need to keep those echo lines in

Code:

/etc/event.d/rcS-late under '-f /usr/lib/genfstab.awk > $tmp_fstab'

do I need to edit them to mmcblk0p3 or can I safely remove them?

And last but not least is there eventually another way to copy /home back to emmc?
I don't know why, but my phone keeps crashing/rebooting after about 20 minutes of copying files back from sd card.
(edit: I tried to restore /home with filebox but it gives a lot of copying errors

Quote:

Cannot create symbolic link targeting to source

Hopefully someone can help...

thx in advance,

..::J4ZZ::..

Re: Repartition the internal drive

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Originally Posted by Radicalz38 (Post 875913)

This is just for specifying the storage space for installable applications not for the whole internal flash.. So this is not for making multi partitions. In addition you could repartition mydocs like mine I used partition magic :p
So in short yep use gparted for multi paritioning.

hi..how do u repartition mydocs using partition magic?

i have partition magic installed on my windows laptop..however, when i connect my N900 to the laptop, partition magic did not lists MyDocs..

it only showed my hard drive letters..and no removable drives (MyDocs and Memory Card)..

my laptop's disc drive is fried..so i can't use it to boot into GParted LiveCd..

would u elaborate more on how to use the partition magic?thx

Re: Repartition the internal drive

It is possible to repartition without flashing vanilla image and without loosing data on existing partitions.

Simple use backupmenu v2 with a linux pc (with gparted installed).

This guide can explain how to:
http://translate.google.it/translate...n&hl=&ie=UTF-8

Unfortunately Google's translation is not perfect

Re: Repartition the internal drive

Is the solution #1 (swap /home and MyDocs partition) compatible with PR1.3

Re: Repartition the internal drive

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Originally Posted by salazar (Post 894054)

Is the solution #1 (swap /home and MyDocs partition) compatible with PR1.3

If the question is refferred to link I have posted, the answer is NO.

It is a variant of Solution #6: Custom repartitioning from a linux PC

Original Solution 6 use MeeGo rescue image, instead the linked guide use BackupMenu v2 for same purpose