N900, too much fun
Finally i got my N900 and the first think i tried to do is to swap the 27G (vfat) with the 2G (ext3) partitions, went good so far, but then i messed up and reboot by accident (wrong terminal, wanted to shutdown another machine) and my N900 starts crashing on the initial start (inf. loop), now i need not even flash the normal firmware, but do a full overwrite and reset the whole internal memory card, how embarrassing …
I think this time i got for no vfat and sawp at all, just create a single ext3 over the 32G (minus the 256) and do the sawp as well as the vfat (needed for the camera) in the file system via loop device. So then i will be able to resize them dynamicly in care i need more space for photos or bigger swap if i like to run apache ^^
Filesystem: 32G ext3
- 1,5G /swap
- 1,5G /vfat
I am btw extremely surprised by the speed of the 900 compare to the 800 series, the only sad point is a little offset in the map software.
xuedi
Posted on March 11th, 2010 at 08:57
I’m a bit confused: so your N900 has a total capacity of 32+1.5+1.5=35GB? That’s not really standard
Yes I did mention the problem (offset?) with the GPS on Tuesday. It makes the whole thing not really usable. I think it could be a software issue, didn’t try Open Street Map yet.
Posted on March 11th, 2010 at 14:48
nope, i have 32G with one file system, and i use 3G of space to create two files in the files system witch are mounted as swap and vfat.
BUT i changed that again, it was to slow to have the swap in a another file system, that works for my laptop, but the N900 actually uses the swap a lot, so its better to have it in a real partition…