Thread: Do you want to install as many applications as you like?
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2007-02-20 , 16:08
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#62
Originally Posted by maxilogan View Post
All in all it seems ok, since booting from the MMC and from the flash will end up in having different themes, different brightness/volume settings, etc.
Yes and you can also use df command to see the root device. Also when booting from mmc fails it should be written. I think it writes 'booting from mmc failed, booting from flash" or something like that
Originally Posted by maxilogan View Post
*But* I cannot understand this: I partitioned my 1gb MMC into about 800 MB + 196 MB partitions to have some 64 MB more than the usual (the calculations were: 128 MB flash with normally about 64 MB available on the device so 196 will provide the 64 for the system plus 128 MB for applications).
You forgot compression.

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowTo_EAS..._From_MMC_card
"* Because the whole system will be FASTER than before (almost DOUBLED), since it won't be based on a compressed and journalized filesystem (jffs2)"

http://maemo.org/maemowiki/HowTo_BootRootFSFromMMC
"As the jffs2 flash filesystem uses compression you need bigger partition on MMC to hold same data. 128MB is too small, at least 256MB is recommended to have similar space as with original flash rootfs."