question about installing android on FR

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On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:49:43 +0100
Davide Scaini <dscaini at gmail.com> wrote:


> 
> For Android to work properly the Micro SD Card in your FreeRunner needs to
> have 2 primary partitions. The first needs to be a VFAT/MSDOS (16 or 32)
> partition which is used is mounted as '/sdcard', this is used as a storage
> area (for pictures, movies, music, etc). The second is an ext3 partition
> which Android mounts as '/data', this is where it stores settings, caches,
> etc.
> 
> Experience has shown that sizing these at a ratio of 3 to 1 works best. So
> if you have a 4GB card make a 3GB vfat partition and a 1GB ext3 partion.

Interestingly my android install does not seem to use the ext3 partition - looks like I wasted some sdcard space making that?

This is an install from ran's cupcake image:-

# mount
rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals tmpfs rw,size=4096k 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock6 /system jffs2 ro 0 0
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock7 /data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0



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David Matthews
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