Maintenance Kernel and re-partitioning

Well, I decided to re-partition the HDD in my Zaurus. I don't need vfat patition anymore, neither Qt environment.

But backup is backup. Following is only a memo for myself. Please do not try on your Zaurus if you are not sure what's going on.

$ ssh root@zaurus
# cd /media/hdd
# tar zcvf hdd3.dict1.tar.gz dict1
# mv hdd3.dict1.tar.gz /media/card
# rm -rf dict1
# tar zcvf hdd3.dict2.tar.gz dict
# mv hdd3.dict2.tar.gz /media/card
# rm -rf dict2
# tar zcvf hdd3.Documents.tar.gz Documents
# mv hdd3.Documents.tar.gz /media/card
# rm -rf Documents
# cd /
# tar zcvf /media/hdd/hdd2.home.tar.gz home
# mv /media/hdd/hdd2.home.tar.gz /media/card
# poweroff

I saved these tar files in my PC and delete them from SD.

Now the maintenance kernel. While pressing [D] and [B] at the same time, unlock the battery cover, push reset switch, lock the battery cover back then power on.

The maintenance kernel is yet another version of Zaurus ROM. I played with it for a while.

# dmesg | more
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
# mount -woremount /
# mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock2 /hdd1
# mount -t jffs2 /dev/mtdblock3 /hdd2

OK. I go a step further.

fdisk /dev/hda and delete all the partitions. Create a new partition from cylinder 1 to 7872 and let left space be another one then set type as 82 (Linux Swap). Then mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda1 and mkswap -v1 /dev/hda2. Now most of 4GB HDD becomes root and around 32MB swap.

I have downloaded the stable Angstrom console image to my SD card. Just flash it as usual. Last command for my new Angstrom envrionment is swapon /dev/hda2 so that a new 32M swap joins in.

My purpose for a big / is install self compiling envrionment. After ipkg update, I did some ipkg install like gcc, gcc-symlinks, task-sdk-bare.

I'll see what I can do on this new environment.