Re: N900 root partition at 88%
 

So does anything use that by default, and does it get exported as mass storage over the USB? Aside from the possibilities of using it to expand /home or /opt, it seems to me that if it isn't fairly visible for something by default there's going to be a lot of confused users.

Re: N900 root partition at 88%
 

There is also a bug that results in a reboot being required to show the correct amount free space after app removal.

Re: N900 root partition at 88%
 

I know personally I was thinking of removing the vfat and opt partitions and format/expand home to the whole eMMC. Then hopefully I can set it so that only the microSD card is exported over mass storage, as most of my data transfer will be via a Linux machine anyway so mostly I will not need mass storage support.

It is bad though that we have to do this. The partition scheme should have been better thought out. I am certainly thinking in the above scenario I may also symlink some stuff from root to home as well. I do not want to have to worry about root filling up.

Re: N900 root partition at 88%
 

The MicroSD/SDHC card, if any, is visible through the File Manager and open/save dialogs in applications. It may be used for storing and exchanging audio files, video files, documents, and other data files.

If the MicroSD/SDHC card is not in use by an application at the time the USB mass storage connection is made, yes, it is made available over USB.

Re: N900 root partition at 88%
 

Is there an easy way to tell if the app is optified? I do have the extras-dev and extras-testing enabled in order to test and report issues.

Unfortunately, other than Vim, I don't remember what apps I uninstalled. Vim was the biggest app (20mb) of them all. So I removed it along with a bunch of others. I re-installed Vim (coz I can't live without it :o) but didn't see a spike in the '/' usage. so not sure what is going on. perhaps because 'df' didn't report correctly (Bug 5450 ) Checking opt after the Vim installation showed Vim-related files so I think Vim is optified.

Re: N900 root partition at 88%
 

arachnist's question regarding JTAG/serial console over USB has been moved to its own thread. Those interested in the topic, please continue discussion there.

Re: N900 root partition at 88%
 

dpkg -L packageme shows all files installed by a package. Testing effort can be concentrated on extras-testing because packages held only in extras-devel probably are there for a reason.

Re: N900 root partition at 88%
 

Has installing non-repository apps been confirmed as the root cause for the problem here, or is this going to be a cluster-fook for everyone?

If this is an issue, Nokia will scare all but the tech geeks away from this device. You tech geeks rock, but you do not drive most of the sales for the product.

The delay could be a blessing, but cause N900 preorders to get canceled in droves- if issues like this are a common problem.

Re: N900 root partition at 88%
 

this is not a bug.

this is about software not optimized for this operating system.

if you install w7 software on your win2000 sinclair, it won't work either.

edit:
ok, didn't get the ZX81 reference, no win2k :)
but you know what i'm saying.

Re: N900 root partition at 88%
 

Is there any app in extras (-stable) not optified? How could that happen?

In case you're talking about extras-devel apps, then OpenTTD is not optified and is probably around 6-10 MiB.