Edited by phelum at 2015-5-8 14:39
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What can I do with the 8GB EMMC Flash in Orange Pi Plus? (and how?)
Can I put Raspbian(or other OS) on it, then be able to take out the flash card without shutting down the OS?
Can I use it to store stuff on?
`df -h` isn't show anything 8 GB in size.
I think so. Try a sunxi program called nand-part to partition the NAND then use mkfs to format the partitions. I suggest a small boot partiton (say 64MB) (FAT32) and the remainder of the NAND is an ext4 partition (root file system).
Booting directly from NAND might be harder because it requires a special u-boot and probably the boot0/1 code in NAND will need to be updated. But it should be easy to get the system to boot from SD card and load the kernel (uImage) and then get everything else from NAND. So as soon as the kernel starts you will be able to remove the SD card.
Update: The Debian server image I'm running doesn't have the NAND driver and so there is no /dev/nand. I'll try to generate a suitable kernel.
Cheers,
Steven
