#616 NORM Update.: Partition support in olpcrd and olpc-update

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#616: Partition support in olpcrd and olpc-update
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  Reporter:  jg           |       Owner:  cscott          
      Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new             
  Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Update.2 (8.2.0)
 Component:  distro       |     Version:                  
Resolution:               |    Keywords:  rel-8.2.0:?     
  Verified:  1            |    Blocking:                  
 Blockedby:               |  
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Changes (by mstone):

 * cc: Blaketh (added)


Comment:

 It occurred to me last night that we could build an initramfs for in-place
 partitioning. This irfs could boot the system, delete everything except
 /home, "compact" the JFFS2 filesystem on NAND, partition the system,
 install the new system data, and reboot. (If we need to reformat the user-
 data partition, then we would probably need to use our USB key for temp
 space.) (We could also consider a Forth solution but it would seem, on the
 surface, to be expensive to extend such a solution to new filesystems
 compared with a Linux system.) (Finally, some care is needed when keeping
 track of how much space is needed for the boot and system partitions in
 order to give proper user feedback.)

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