[olpc-help] SD card usage

[Richard A. Smith]

Steve Kay wrote:
> What activities are capable of using the SD card either to run from or
> to store data to?

Simple answer is none.  Activities are installed to the olpc users dir 
and the data is stored in the journal.  All that happens in /home/olpc 
which is on the nand.

The complex answer is all of them.  With filesystem trickery you could 
make locations on the the SD card show up as the /home/olpc dir.  Be 
prepared for a lot work to make it happen, but its possible.

And a further note is that SD is still not safe if you suspend the 
machine.  So if the SD card is mounted and you suspend the machine by 
pressing the power button or closing the lid then it tends to corrupt 
your SD card filesystem.

-- 
Richard Smith  <richard at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child