Creating a large partition and booting off it

marcvs (Talk | contribs)
(New page: I found it is possible to add a partition to the internal flash card. WARNING: Using this recipe you will loose MyDocs. umount /home/user/MyDocs /home cannot be umounted, unfortunately...)
Newer edit →

Revision as of 20:29, 25 April 2010

I found it is possible to add a partition to the internal flash card. WARNING: Using this recipe you will loose MyDocs. 

umount /home/user/MyDocs

/home cannot be umounted, unfortunately. But this didn't do any harm to /home

Use parted to shrink the MyDocs partition (on my N900 it was the 1st one)

reboot

Use fdisk to

  1. remove the first partition (Because parted makes it not end on a cylinder boundary)
  2. recreate the exactly same partition again (this time ending on a cylinder boundary)
  3. add the 4th partition right after the 1st one

reboot

Enjoy the new partition.

Retrieved from "http://bugs.maemo.org/Creating_a_large_partition_and_booting_off_it"