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[FIXED] Tried to free up rootfs space, problem happened

Hi, I was trying to free some space in rootfs, so I followed this page of the wiki, and finally ran the script I copied/pasted in my N900.

I got this :

Code:

/home/user # ./move.sh

cp: cannot create directory '/home/opt/var/cache/apt/archives': No such file or directory

cp: cannot create directory '/home/opt/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin': Path does not exist

cp: cannot create directory '/home/opt/var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin': Path does not exist

/home/user # apt-get update

E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing.

/home/user # apt-get clean

E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (2 No such file or directory)

E: Unable to lock the download directory

The script itself is :
DON'T RUN THIS SCRIPT, IT IS WRONG

Code:

#!/bin/sh

# script for moving stuff from / to /home/opt to get more rootfs space on Nokia N900 Maemo 5

# ignoring errors when creating dirs that may already exist

mkdir /home/opt/usr 2> /dev/null

mkdir /home/opt/usr/share 2> /dev/null

mkdir /home/opt/usr/share/themes 2> /dev/null

mkdir /home/opt/usr/share/icons 2> /dev/null

mkdir /home/opt/usr/share/hildon-welcome 2> /dev/null

mkdir /home/opt/usr/share/pixmaps 2> /dev/null

mkdir /home/opt/var/cache/apt 2> /dev/null



cp -r /usr/share/themes/* /home/opt/usr/share/themes

rm -r /usr/share/themes

ln -s /home/opt/usr/share/themes /usr/share/themes



cp -r /usr/share/icons/* /home/opt/usr/share/icons

rm -r /usr/share/icons

ln -s /home/opt/usr/share/icons /usr/share/icons



cp -r /usr/share/hildon-welcome/* /home/opt/usr/share/hildon-welcome

rm -r /usr/share/hildon-welcome

ln -s /home/opt/usr/share/hildon-welcome /usr/share/hildon-welcome



cp -r /usr/share/pixmaps/* /home/opt/usr/share/pixmaps

rm -r /usr/share/pixmaps

ln -s /home/opt/usr/share/pixmaps /usr/share/pixmaps



cp -r /var/cache/apt/* /home/opt/var/cache/apt

rm -r /var/cache/apt

ln -s /home/opt/var/cache/apt /var/cache/apt

Can anyone help me understand what I did wrong, or/and how to fix that ? My first guess would be to reflash the N900, but maybe someone has a cleaner way.

Re: Tried to free up rootfs space, problem happened

Quote:

Originally Posted by choubbi (Post 529725)

Hi, I was trying to free some space in rootfs, so I followed this page of the wiki, and finally ran the script I copied/pasted in my N900.

I got this :

Code:

/home/user # ./move.sh

cp: cannot create directory '/home/opt/var/cache/apt/archives': No such file or directory

cp: cannot create directory '/home/opt/var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin': Path does not exist

cp: cannot create directory '/home/opt/var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin': Path does not exist

/home/user # apt-get update

E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing.

/home/user # apt-get clean

E: Could not open lock file /var/cache/apt/archives/lock - open (2 No such file or directory)

E: Unable to lock the download directory

Can anyone help me understand what I did wrong, or/and how to fix that ? My first guess would be to reflash the N900, but maybe someone has a cleaner way.

Not your fault - the script is wrong. Try running the following (as root):

Code:

mkdir -p /home/opt/var/cache/apt/archives/partial

touch /var/cache/apt/archives/lock

apt-get update

Re: Tried to free up rootfs space, problem happened

You rock !

Thank you, that worked !

Re: Tried to free up rootfs space, problem happened

Quote:

Originally Posted by choubbi (Post 529759)

You rock !

Thank you, that worked !

No problem - I've fixed the script on the wiki page as well now.

Re: Tried to free up rootfs space, problem happened

daaaamn :(
i did something wrong... i did the same thing with choubbi. even after i followed Rob1n's code, i have the following problem:

Quote:

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (2 No such file or directory)
E: Unable to lock the list directory

Re: Tried to free up rootfs space, problem happened

Quote:

Originally Posted by tratrafe2 (Post 530025)

daaaamn :(
i did something wrong... i did the same thing with choubbi. even after i followed Rob1n's code, i have the following problem:

You've obviously done something else other than running the script choubbi did, as that script doesn't touch /var/lib/apt at all.

What's the output of:

Code:

ls -l /var/lib /var/lib/apt /var/lib/apt/lists /home/opt/var/lib/apt

Re: Tried to free up rootfs space, problem happened

Hey Rob1n thanks for the script. It worked for me but somehow did not free any rootfs space. Any idea on why that could be?

Re: Tried to free up rootfs space, problem happened

Also I've been looking around on other ways to free some space and it looks like some D-level apps are the problem. I couldn't find one but Is there any page available that shows a list of programs, which use a lot of rootfs space so I could just remove them?

Re: Tried to free up rootfs space, problem happened

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crude (Post 535026)

Hey Rob1n thanks for the script. It worked for me but somehow did not free any rootfs space. Any idea on why that could be?

Which script? I've not actually written any scripts to free up rootfs space.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crude (Post 535030)

You can use the StorageUsage app to view the disk space packages are using, and that will flag those using rootfs space. There's also some scripts I've written here which will list all packages using rootfs space.

Re: Tried to free up rootfs space, problem happened

I'm a complete noob in running the scripts. I've transferred them in my Documents directory. Can't seem to run the checkpkgs.pl script :$ through the terminal.

I've read the instructions but could you please post a noobguide here.