Running apps from memory card - Dont Panic!

[rogers]

Alright, there have been plenty of panic threads about applications only downloading to the phone. Stop it! Applications WILL be able to be installed to the SDcard! There have been rumors cited that Google will add that option to the OS, and even if they don't we are running on a linux kernel, and apparently can use a terminal. The fix would be simple.

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The commands below are NOT TO BE RUN on your phone. I will not have my hands on the phone until Tuesday, if you feel like doing this before then you need to do some exploration first to figure out the proper directories to move over to the SDcard. This is just what you would do in any linux based system.

Say you find out the bulk of your apps are in:

/usr/local/apps/

So you have like

/usr/local/apps/breadcrumbz.apk
/usr/local/apps/opera.apk
/usr/local/apps/...

You would just open up the terminal (which I've heard alot about and am very excited about having linux shell access on my phone!) and enter...

~ $ mv /usr/local/apps /sdcard/
~ $ mount --bind /sdcard/apps /usr/local/apps
~ $ echo /sdcard/apps /usr/local/apps bind defaults 0 0 >> /etc/fstab

And BAM you just moved all your apps to the storage card and set it up so that whenever android accesses or writes to /usr/local/apps it's writing to the storage card. The power of linux haha.

This is NOTHING to be worried about.