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This article duplicates a lot of information in [[Booting from a flash card]], isn't properly formatted or capitalized, and covers an un-recommended method for expanding the available application installation space. If this process must be documented, the article needs to be renamed, slimmed down (to only include the non-duplicate, relevant information), cleaned up and carry a health warning at the top, as [[booting from a flash card]] is a much cleaner, safer, more effective and more reliable method of achieving the same goal. —[[User:generalantilles|GeneralAntilles]] 09:56, 20 July 2008 (UTC) | This article duplicates a lot of information in [[Booting from a flash card]], isn't properly formatted or capitalized, and covers an un-recommended method for expanding the available application installation space. If this process must be documented, the article needs to be renamed, slimmed down (to only include the non-duplicate, relevant information), cleaned up and carry a health warning at the top, as [[booting from a flash card]] is a much cleaner, safer, more effective and more reliable method of achieving the same goal. —[[User:generalantilles|GeneralAntilles]] 09:56, 20 July 2008 (UTC) | ||
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:::I also think "potential deletion" is too harsh, especially for someone starting to contribute in the wiki. It has the "old Midgard article" flag, which is enough. If there is a "this page needs cleaning" let's use it as well. I don't agree with the "willing to hand to your boss", most excellent works start as scraps and drafts some day. If you delete them before they get mature...--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 12:23, 20 July 2008 (UTC) | :::I also think "potential deletion" is too harsh, especially for someone starting to contribute in the wiki. It has the "old Midgard article" flag, which is enough. If there is a "this page needs cleaning" let's use it as well. I don't agree with the "willing to hand to your boss", most excellent works start as scraps and drafts some day. If you delete them before they get mature...--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 12:23, 20 July 2008 (UTC) | ||
:::More potential flags (thinking in general, not necessarily to this article here) could be "following these steps might harm your system", "this is not a recommended approach, be careful"... etc. But deleting, I would do it only for really outdated and useless stuff - unless you are the author and you yourself thing that this page has no sense in the wiki.--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 12:26, 20 July 2008 (UTC) | :::More potential flags (thinking in general, not necessarily to this article here) could be "following these steps might harm your system", "this is not a recommended approach, be careful"... etc. But deleting, I would do it only for really outdated and useless stuff - unless you are the author and you yourself thing that this page has no sense in the wiki.--[[User:qgil|qgil]] 12:26, 20 July 2008 (UTC) | ||
- | ::::the "old midgard tag" is something I added a bit later. the [[ | + | ::::the "old midgard tag" is something I added a bit later. the [[Category:articles marked for deletion]] page could maybe contain a "deletion policy", the conditions under which you can expect your page to be deleted sooner or later. [[User:mfrasca]] 2008-07-20 12:38 UTC |
:::::Part of the issue here is that this method of extending the rootfs is significantly less reliable and effective than just straight booting from a flash card, and this article could confuse some newbies (even with a large and hard to miss health warning) into using this method over the other. The results of which are bad. I'm in favor of deleting this if its. I'm not sure why the Midgard article tag is relevant in any way, as it doesn't appear to come from any Midgard article that I'm able to locate. Suffice to say, it's bad advice that really has no benefit over booting entirely from a card and lots and lots of disadvantages. I'm proposing deletion as much for the content itself as the quality of the presentation. —[[User:generalantilles|GeneralAntilles]] 14:51, 20 July 2008 (UTC) | :::::Part of the issue here is that this method of extending the rootfs is significantly less reliable and effective than just straight booting from a flash card, and this article could confuse some newbies (even with a large and hard to miss health warning) into using this method over the other. The results of which are bad. I'm in favor of deleting this if its. I'm not sure why the Midgard article tag is relevant in any way, as it doesn't appear to come from any Midgard article that I'm able to locate. Suffice to say, it's bad advice that really has no benefit over booting entirely from a card and lots and lots of disadvantages. I'm proposing deletion as much for the content itself as the quality of the presentation. —[[User:generalantilles|GeneralAntilles]] 14:51, 20 July 2008 (UTC) | ||
:::::: I don't know... I think that if you have arguments to show that one method is better than the other, then leave both methods and praise one on the corresponding page. users will see a refined and trustworthy page and select it instead of a confused and loudly unrecommended one. oh, the page on midgard is this: http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto_keep_usr_apart [[User:mfrasca]] 2008-07-21 8:41 UTC | :::::: I don't know... I think that if you have arguments to show that one method is better than the other, then leave both methods and praise one on the corresponding page. users will see a refined and trustworthy page and select it instead of a confused and loudly unrecommended one. oh, the page on midgard is this: http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howto_keep_usr_apart [[User:mfrasca]] 2008-07-21 8:41 UTC | ||
:::::I generally agree with generalantilles in this case. Any user who would benefit from moving /usr and /home to the SD card should be able to figure this out. And any user who can't figure this out on their own is probably better off just going ahead and booting from SD since it is better documented and more modular. Deletion might be a little harsh, but really, I don't see what it adds to the wiki. --[[User:johnx|johnx]] 08:33, 21 July 2008 (UTC) | :::::I generally agree with generalantilles in this case. Any user who would benefit from moving /usr and /home to the SD card should be able to figure this out. And any user who can't figure this out on their own is probably better off just going ahead and booting from SD since it is better documented and more modular. Deletion might be a little harsh, but really, I don't see what it adds to the wiki. --[[User:johnx|johnx]] 08:33, 21 July 2008 (UTC) | ||
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