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How do I work out what to uninstall? I know witter and FM radio are python (though I have the radio from extras, not testing).
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you enable devel (after removing python) and install witter from there, and in the process python is also installed, but from devel and not from extras, and then you end up with a non optified python again. (If devel python version is non optified. i actually don't know this) |
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Thank you very much for this guide - thought I'd post my results from running through it as it has turned out to be a really useful exercise. I started with around 19mb free space on root. I ran the commands and uninstalled everything (including several apps from extras-testing and devel). With those 2 repos still disabled, I had 59.7m free. I then enabled extras-testing and devel. This took me down to 45.1m. I ran 11 updates from all repos (no python apps). Was now down to 44.9m. I reinstalled wiicontrol and mediabox (with 2 new plugins) from extras-devel - both python. Down to 44.4m. I then disabled the two repos again. Back to 58.5m. So it appears that just enabling the two "cautionary" repos does reduce space on root by about 10 meg. The new python is certainly being applied to the reinstalled devel apps which is great. I'd imagine that 44.4m itself is enough, but by keeping those repos disable unless I'm dipping, I've practically gained 30meg! So thanks again! |
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Hm perhaps I should post it as a separate thread, make it easier to find.
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But thanks for this tip! |
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http://wiki.maemo.org and put your instructions there please e: because at least one sees only the essential parts, links etc are pretty soon forgotten no matter if it is a thread here, wiki page or whatever. |
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Yes. I didnt pay attention. Sorry for that. |
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I used the following script from one of the many root space threads on here:
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#!/bin/ash Lets not forget, the MMC might be faster for some things as its not using CPU power for compression. Its all a CPU power vs IO performance juggling act, hard to know which is going to be fastest. Moving the apt cache alone makes a huge difference and its silly it wasting space on root. Just enabling extras-testing and extras-devel but not installing anything, should NOT eat root space. Although I guess its a good idea to disable extras-tests and extras-devel before doing a firmware update anyway, but it was silly I had to do it just to free enough space. |
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Could you tell what this script really does and is it safe?
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So it did install many things but the only thing i gained was something from 33 to 36 and after reinstalling some stuff that i need i did fall back to 35 (but maybe a reboot would give me that back) what does help very well is just disabling the 2 repo's (testing and develop) then it jumps to more then 47 what is exactly stored for that. And cant that be done in home? |
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42-11: 14MB
51-01: 16MB After I run this cript: 55MB Thanks! |
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I simply apt-get -f dist-upgraded, and whenever I ran out of space I rebooted and redid apt-get -f dist-upgrade.
Worked fine, only took me about 4 hours to update :cool: |
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OK WE use rootfs for what?? when i import video, music, pictures etc. to my phone where is it saved? on rootfs memory or on 32gb memory?? i want to use 32GB of space no that 227 MB...
sorry for bad English i hope u understand............chears Ps: when i download some application from ovi store which memory takes? |
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Anything under MyDocs (which is where the video, music, pictures, etc default to) is on the 32GB eMMC.
Applications from the Ovi store will be optified, so larger apps and data will go to /opt (which is on the 32GB eMMC), though libraries and smaller files will still go to the rootfs. |
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Very clear. Thanks. |
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i am confused
i only installed 2 apps from devel and testing, cant remember which ones exactly, but only 2. when i do df -h, it shows me that rootfs size is 227,9m, used 163,6m and available 60.1m with a usage of 73% is this any normal? |
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Sounds about right, yes. I'm on 82% used at the moment (need to redo some cleanups though).
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but what exactly is using 163mb of 227mb total?
the 2 apps i installed from devel and testing were both not larger than 1 mb. so i suppose the used 163mb are system-relevant files that i cant and shouldnt remove anyway, right? |
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Yes, most of the space is the OS itself and common libraries. Unless you're absolutely requiring the space then it's not worth worrying about. If you're short of space for something then some of the files/directories can be moved off to the eMMC instead. This has the potential to cause problems though, so is best avoided if possible.
Some of the libraries will probably get moved in future updates but there still seems to be some ongoing planning/discussions about how best to do this. |
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I used this one too, rootfs increased from 38M to 72M. But this has a problem, each time I restart the N900, the will use the default blue theme automatically. How to fix this?
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:not found line 2: ./freeroot: cd: line 4: can't cd to /usr/ ./freeroot: line 6: syntax error: word unexpected (expecting "do") How can I solve? Thanks |
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Whow!
After the last upgrade today to n900-02-8 and restoring my 38MB backup, I ran into a total memory wall - giving me 0 (zero) and unable to reinstall numerous apts. Rebooted and got some 6 MB back. Then I followed the 2 suggestions offered in the earlier pages. Uninstalled Python etc. which gave me some 30mb back, BUT in RAM usage. Then I TYPED and executed each line of the script from Alex Atkin into my N900. and Hé Presto! i now have 65.35 Mb memory free. (Had to upload the Update via the NSU as OTA gave me "not sufficient memory!" Am all happy now! Thanks Guys! |
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