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lol well im glad i could help, i just dont remember as much as i should about the stuff i pulled in the Linux OS, but pls do research this, i want to know the linux file system again, it has exceptional real world applications, i once navigated a chinese language linux OS on a broken computer of a friend and knew where what was due to just simple "feel".

I want that again so i may be installing another Linux OS on it as a learning experience. So i was wondering if complete wipe of Nexus is done, will we have access to total 8/16gb? or is there some still reserved? Is there an actual linux arm based OS that works on it except for android? can there be dual boots? or booting off external USB with symlinks...?

oh and also in the link given for the asus transformer, its mentioned that Fat32 doesnt support symlinks, so again it needs to be seen if Nexus 7 supports any other filesystem in native or can be hacked to support it?

i hope my ramblings have given you a bit more ideas or understandings in your quest, PLS post anything you find so it may help us all?

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hello

i signed up specifically because of this as iv been wanting to buy a nexus 7 but it isnt available in my country in
an affordable price range and am hoping to buy one soon, and this is the main problem that i see coming up given
the size of the programs and games available for mobile OSs.

I messed a little with linux in my time and was thinking, and it may be wholly and solely wrong due to my inexperience
with the Android OS or Linux in general, i was thinking:
What not create symlinks?  i remember doing it for a few distros i ran, esp for mounting problems and disappearing shortcut
files, it might work in this scenario as it is already rooted, and maybe we are able to install tools allowing for proper
file handling and distribution in Android 4.1?

IIRC it wouldnt take the same amount of space but did only leave a sort of shortcut for the program to access it
but atleast when i did it, it had to be created by hand, i do not remember if it accepted whole folders as symlink,
but i think it might, or we could just make a small script that mounts all the files manually, whenever the program shortcut
is accessed, it might slow down the process somewhat but in the end it IS saving space

i hope to god i havent made a fool of myself :P

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