Creating a large partition and booting off it - Revision history

imported_>marcvs at 13:34, 28 May 2010

2010-05-28T13:34:54Z

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	I found it is possible to add a partition to the internal flash card.		I found it is possible to add a partition to the internal flash card.

	== WARNING: Using this recipe you can lose MyDocs. == ~~Most~~ recent ~~users~~ reported happily not to loose it.		== WARNING: Using this recipe you can lose MyDocs. == \
			However, the most recent user reported happily not to loose it.
	Make a backup of MyDocs!		Make a backup of MyDocs!

2010-05-28T13:34:08Z

WARNING: Using this recipe you will lose MyDocs.

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	I found it is possible to add a partition to the internal flash card.		I found it is possible to add a partition to the internal flash card.

	== WARNING: Using this recipe you ~~will~~ lose MyDocs. ==		== WARNING: Using this recipe you can lose MyDocs. == Most recent users reported happily not to loose it.
	Make a backup of MyDocs!		Make a backup of MyDocs!

2010-05-28T13:33:31Z

Creation of the new partition

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	Use parted to shrink the MyDocs partition (on my [[Nokia N900\|N900]] it was the 1st one)		Use parted to shrink the MyDocs partition (on my [[Nokia N900\|N900]] it was the 1st one)
	parted ~~/dev/mmcblk0~~ print		parted
	parted ~~/dev/mmcblk0 1~~ resize ~~1kb~~ 25GB		(parted) print
			(parted) resize XXXXXX 25GB
			Replace XXXXXX with the value given by parted print

	reboot		reboot

	Use fdisk to		Use fdisk to add the 4th partition right after the 1st one
	~~# remove the first partition (Because parted makes it not end on a cylinder boundary)~~
	~~# recreate the exactly same partition again (this time ending on a cylinder boundary) Make sure to specify "TYPE C" for vfat~~
	# add the 4th partition right after the 1st one

	reboot		reboot

2010-04-26T14:34:47Z

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 Copy the device tree (Sure this is too much, but not copying it will not work)
   cp -af /dev/* <mountpoint>/dev
 Using bootmenu.sh and this entry in /etc/bootmenu.d I can now boot into my new 3.7GB root drive

2010-04-26T08:04:18Z

add {{danger}}

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	I found it is possible to add a partition to the internal flash card.		I found it is possible to add a partition to the internal flash card.

2010-04-26T07:58:26Z

n900 link

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	/home cannot be umounted, unfortunately. But this didn't do any harm to /home		/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)		Use parted to shrink the MyDocs partition (on my [[Nokia N900\|N900]] it was the 1st one)
	parted /dev/mmcblk0 print		parted /dev/mmcblk0 print
	parted /dev/mmcblk0 1 resize 1kb 25GB		parted /dev/mmcblk0 1 resize 1kb 25GB

2010-04-26T07:57:43Z

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	/dev/mmcblk0p2 2,0G 129M 1,8G 7% /home		/dev/mmcblk0p2 2,0G 129M 1,8G 7% /home
	/dev/mmcblk0p1 24G 7,9G 16G 34% /home/user/MyDocs		/dev/mmcblk0p1 24G 7,9G 16G 34% /home/user/MyDocs

			[[Category:Power users]]

2010-04-25T20:47:14Z

WARNING: Using this recipe you will loose MyDocs.

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	I found it is possible to add a partition to the internal flash card.		I found it is possible to add a partition to the internal flash card.

	== WARNING: Using this recipe you will ~~loose~~ MyDocs. ==		== WARNING: Using this recipe you will lose MyDocs. ==
	Make a backup of MyDocs!		Make a backup of MyDocs!

2010-04-25T20:43:30Z

Partitioning the internal flash card moved to Creating a large partition and booting off it: Added more content so it deserved a new title. This page might want to be categorized as PowerUser, but I have no clue how to

← Older revision	Revision as of 20:43, 25 April 2010
(No difference)

2010-04-25T20:41:32Z

Rewrote it

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 I found it is possible to add a partition to the internal flash card.
   umount /home/user/MyDocs
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 Use parted to shrink the MyDocs partition (on my N900 it was the 1st one)
 reboot
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 Use fdisk to
 # remove the first partition (Because parted makes it not end on a cylinder boundary)
-# recreate the exactly same partition again (this time ending on a cylinder boundary)
+# recreate the exactly same partition again (this time ending on a cylinder boundary) Make sure to specify "TYPE C" for vfat
 # add the 4th partition right after the 1st one
 reboot
-Enjoy the new partition.
+ Enjoy the new partition.