My Dinky Note

Lately, I want to install some themes in my Motorola E680i. Using Theme Manager developed by intoxicated, themes will be installed in /ezxlocal folder. The problem is our native.db, which contains our phonebook, sms, calendar, etc. (actually I forget what else, but I think it also contains our radio program channel), is located in the /ezxlocal too. My native.db’s file size is around 3 MB, while the /ezxlocal capacity just around 5.2 MB. Therefore, I need to move my native.db somewhere else in order to free some space that can be used to install some themes.

Here, I write the step-by-step that should be done to move my native.db from /ezxlocal to /diska that relatively have more space. I have tried to move the database to the MMC (/mmc), but the loading process was quite long. Thanks to akhaliq from MotorolaFans Forum for the idea.

The first thing to do is kill all of db_daemon process that run in the background.

/ # ps ax | grep db_daemon

  171 ?       S      0:02 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  191 ?       S      0:00 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  192 ?       S      0:00 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  195 ?       S      0:01 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  197 ?       S      0:00 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  198 ?       S      0:00 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  207 ?       S      0:00 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  208 ?       S      0:00 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  284 pts/0   S      0:00 grep db_daemon

/ # kill -9 171 191 192 195 197 198 207 208

Note that the command kill above depends on your own PID’s db_daemon process.

Then, do this steps.

mkdir /diska/.system/sysDatabase

cp -p /ezxlocal/sysDatabase/* /diska/.system/sysDatabase

mv /ezxlocal/sysDatabase /mmc/mmca1/sysDbBackup

cd /ezxlocal

ln -s /diska/.system/sysDatabase

chown ezx:ezx sysDatabase

chown -R ezx:ezx /diska/.system/sysDatabase

After that, reboot the phone.

The concept I used here is make a symbolic link in /ezxlocal that refers to the folder/diska/.system/sysDatabase. It is like make a shortcut in Windows environment. So, the db_daemon process still can access the contents of /ezxlocal/sysDatabase, that actually is a symbolic link to /diska/.system/sysDatabase.