I have a bunch of random programs skewed across my many directorys and partitions of my empeg, so I am considering wiping it clean and redo it all organized. Is it possible to somehow increase the /usr/local/bin dir so I can fit all the 3rd party apps i want on there instead of using /drive0 ? that way I wont have to worry bout shutting off programs to sync etc and just keep everything in one nice central location. Thanks!

Not without screwing up the way the partitions get re-created when you perform an upgrade, if I recall correctly. The other option is to use the developer partition and mount it as /programs0. That's not a huge amount of space though, and the mount point has to be re-created each time you do an upgrade.

There are a lot of advantages to putting your apps on the music partition. For really large user apps (such as the map data for GPSapp+Roadmap), the only place there's enough room is on the music partition. And the only way something will fully survive an upgrade is to put it on the music partition.

Personally, I just make all the third party stuff run in @DC mode only, so that I never have to worry about shutting it off before I sync. All my third party programs survive through upgrades, and I never have trouble synching.

I mount /dev/hda2 to /usr/local. I EXEC_ONCE a /bin/mount /usr/local in config.ini to mount it for 3rd party apps. You can even use /usr/local/lib for libraries if you append it to the library path before execution. My binaries go into /usr/local/bin. /dev/hda2 gives you 32 megs if I remember right.

Was there not a project started at one time to create a standard install environment for the Empeg? Maybe someday we could re-visit that, especially since new features like site exec have become available in Hijack.

Edit: here is the thread.