I just got my n900 yesterday and the first thing that confused me was all the partitions.

From what I understand the /home/usr/MyDocs is all I can use from mass storage and normal use. Why then are the 'videos' and 'music' folders hidden? And why is there a Mac OS folder?

Is the MyDocs folder really all I'll need? Where do iNES and DrNokSNES look for rom's?

When I install apps like Wargus or Wesnoth that aren't in extras I'm guessing I'll have to put data in opt and the executables will hopefully install themselves somewhere else on their own.

Wouldn't it be easier for everyone if you could mount the n900 on / through USB and browse the whole device?

Sorry if everyone asks this question and I didn't find it in a search, I'm really impressed with the device so far. If only it used a standard microUSB connectoir though!

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Ill answer just a couple of questions

Yes, but it cant be sadly without heavy hack. When you plug in your device to USB and select Storage Mode from the menu, the whole MyDocs are UNMOUNTED from the n900, so its unavailable to the device until you disconnect it.

MyDocs is where almost every personal document go. Notes, Email, Photos, Videos, Downloaded files, etc go there. You have like 28gb of free space to use. You can even wipe the folder and you will break nothing.

But for iNES and DrNokSNES, you should check out their specific instructions, IDK.

I dont know either :P. also .documents is hidden! its a funny thing, but not harmful at all.

Maybe your device has been plugged in to a mac you can safely delete that

hope this helps

Keep asking!

Yeah, the Mac OS folder was kind of perplexing. It contains the usual video/music/documents type folders and some file that looked like shortcuts to the regular folders.

I bought my n900 from Dell but why they would bother adding support for Mac's is anybody's guess.

Let me prefix this by saying I don't use windows, so no idea how any of this works there.

If you want to browse the entire file system from your Linux computer - it's as easy as opening a file explorer (nautilus for example)

First step: installing openssh on the N900.

In Nautilus hit ctrl + l and type in ssh://root@ip address of N900

It'll ask you for the password you set up when installing openssh.

Once logged in you can browse the N900 from / with none of the awkwardness of mass storage mode.

There are several threads on USB networking for the N900 - it's pretty easy to do, as above, same deal. Just ssh://

@GugloPWN: im not too experienced with macs, so i cant tell exactly what it does with that folders.

what i can surely know, is that those folders adds nothing to your n900. so you can delete them if you want

also, as dchky has mentioned, some of us consider the default usb mass storage connection as the basic way to share informaion with the n900, and tend to move over other ways that give us features like wireless sharing without unmounting the partition in the device. ssh in one choice

if you would mount / through usb, it would render your device inusable. it would probably need a boot with microsd in order to work. (so ssh is your friend, remember to create a good password or hacker can log in to your system and do everything you can in commandline with super user priviledges...)

there are two storage chips in device:
rootfs = /
32gb = three partitions: /home, /home/user/MyDocs, and swap to get more virtual ram

I have no idea why those folders are hidden though...

http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_filesystem