OH, you know I couldn’t leave well enough alone….
After hearing that a 4GB partition for my Apps was way too large (a bad feeling was felt when someone said “You’ll never need more than 600MB”…..strangely familiar…..) so I decided to do something about it.
The sure-fire way was to blow everything away and re-do it from the ground up. Well, since that is the case, I had nothing to loose to try it another way.
Welcome GParted! I knew there was a way to simply re-size partitions for regular HDs. I understand that the process would work for an SD card but the difference I saw was that I was kinda messing with the OS part of the SD card. Well, if this process screwed up, I’d simply have to do it the sure-fire way.
Fired up GParted, told it to change my 4GB/4GB into 6.1GB/1.8GB/66MB partitions. Apps/Data/Swap respectively. Little did I know how long it was going to take. The first step was for GParted to shrink the 4GB Data partition down to 1.8GB. That took 20 mins. Of course I started this when I had to leave in 5mins for an appointment. <shrug> was mildly annoyed that I had to leave the phone but did so.
I came back up an hour later and it was all done! Some of the icons were showing a generic Android image (think broken image on windows) but that’s not overly surprising as I just rearranged everything in storage. I rebooted the phone and bam, we’re were good to go!
CM5 has a number of new ways for dong things. The lock screen is a slide to unlock type of deal. Would have helped if I read the release notes I suppose before realizing that I had to slide it to get into my phone 
So, we’ll see how long this configuration lasts before having to upgrade/change it.
At least I got Google Talk working again
