Hi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 8:06 PM, David Garabana Barro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david@garabana.com">david@garabana.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
O Domingo, 6 de Setembro de 2009, Torfinn Ingolfsen escribiu:<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5">> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I just got myself a new SDcard for my FreeRunner (2 GB). Now I'm wondering<br>
> what is the most common layout people use on their SD crds?<br>
> I have ecently learned that QtMoko needs a swap partition (and that it is<br>
> hardcoded to p4).<br>
> What other partitions is useful on the card?<br>
><br>
> I am thinking that since Qi (the boot loader) doesn't have a menu, putting<br>
> more than one system on a card is not that useful. Am I right?<br>
<br>
</div></div>I Use the following partition scheme on my 16 GB Trascend uSD:<br></blockquote><div> </div><div>Thanks for sharing.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
If you're not goint to try different new distros, this scheme is not for you,<br>
but, please, use at least 128 MB as swap partition. The difference is really<br>
really noticeable. You can use the same partition for all distros.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>My 2GB card currently looks like this:<br><br clear="all">neo:~# fdisk /dev/mmcblk0<br><br>The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1203.<br>There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,<br>
and could in certain setups cause problems with:<br>1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)<br>2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs<br> (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)<br><br>Command (m for help): p<br>
<br>Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 1967 MB, 1967128576 bytes<br>57 heads, 56 sectors/track, 1203 cylinders<br>Units = cylinders of 3192 * 512 = 1634304 bytes<br>Disk identifier: 0x00000000<br><br> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>
/dev/mmcblk0p1 694 1203 813960 6 FAT16<br>/dev/mmcblk0p2 1 307 489944 83 Linux<br>/dev/mmcblk0p3 308 614 489972 83 Linux<br>/dev/mmcblk0p4 615 693 126084 82 Linux swap / Solaris<br>
<br>Partition table entries are not in disk order<br><br>Command (m for help): <br><br>That's a vfat p1: /dev/mmcblk0p1 794M 4.0K 794M 1% /media/card<br>root on p2 (500M ext3)<br>p3 (500M ext3, currently unused)<br>
p4 128M swap<br>-- <br>Regards,<br>Torfinn Ingolfsen<br>