Partitionning separate /home/ floder to SD

BS - João Vieira joao at brevespot.com
Mon Oct 20 15:36:03 CEST 2008


I just did as L. Gasser said, it's working fine, i notice some "slowlyness" in 
xTerm in the neo when working in /home/ "area" but it's no big deal.

Used gParted to make partitions, and used ext2 instead of ext3

thanks guys
J

On Monday 20 October 2008, Iain B. Findleton wrote:
> All that works just fine, particularly the use of a swap partiton which
> eliminates the slowing of the FR with time. I also made /usr/local point
> to the uSD so that any applications I install are not affected by
> changes to the flashed stuff.
>
> I notice little negative effects by putting as much as possible on the
> uSD. I did appear to observe that using ext3 on the uSD partitions
> appears to be faster than using FAT file systems, however. That is just
> an impression as I have not run any tests.
>
> Joel Newkirk wrote:
> > On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:39:34 +0100, "Andy Selby"
> >
> > <andyfrommk at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >>> Is there a way that /home/ is in my SD card? Only /home/, like we do in
> >>
> >> Linux
> >>
> >>> distributions... so I can flash whenever i want the Neo without loosing
> >>> configuration files, icons and stuff I am adapting for myself in the
> >>
> >> Neo?
> >>
> >> Did you try
> >> #link /media/card/home /home
> >
> > Actually that'd be 'ln'... ;)
> >
> > The solution I suspect Andy is seeking is to alter /etc/fstab:
> > /dev/mmcblk0p1  /media/card     auto    defaults,async,noauto   0  0
> > change to
> > /dev/mmcblk0p1  /home     auto    defaults,async,noauto   0  0
> >
> > This replaces /home in the filesystem with the contents of the first
> > partition on the uSD.  (note that if the /home folder already exists that
> > this will effectively redirect /home to the uSD without touching the
> > 'local' /home, so that if the uSD is removed, corrupted, etc, and doesn't
> > mount, there's still a /home/root folder, just without everything you
> > customized and added while on the uSD)
> >
> > When (if) I get my FR where I plan to retain the same installation
> > long-term, I intend to carve up the 8gb uSD and have /dev/mmcblk0p3 as
> > /home.  (partition #2 as swap, #1 as alternate boot)
> >
> > j
> >
> >
> >
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