Why only 25gb free?
 

I just got my N900 and charged it up. There appears to be about 3gb less than I thought we would have, since I figured formatting, etc and the 2gb app space would eat about 4gb.

This is almost false advertising, in regards to 32gb;)

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

From what I understand, 32GB = 32,000,000,000 bytes. So, 32GB = 30.51 GiB. From here, 2GiB app space. 768 MB swap memory. That should leave you with around 27 GB of space.

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

That would give us 28.51 space, since you already netted out the format and app space. ;)

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

the outputs of "mount" and "df -h" would probably help...
default partitioning should look like this:
32GB eMMC: /home ~2GB (ext3), /home/user/MyDocs ~29GB (vfat), swap 0.7GB
from the wiki

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

I have 27GB. Swap should have its own faster memory AFAIK.

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

I guess you don't have the mic problem, Rushmore?

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

No, but I have 2gb less that 27gb....

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

running
df -h
in a terminal will tell you what's going on. guess my hint at that was too subtle :)

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

In terminal? Seems there are files called "other" and some video files. When I look at storage, there is a little blue box that show 25gb available.

Why would mine have less free memory than others? Did I get the super-hyper 4gb app partition???? ;)

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

That's what we're trying to figure out with the df -h ;)

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

The following info has been on Wikipedia for ages, so, it wasn't unexpected at all:

The Nokia N900 has 32 GB eMMC and 256 MB NAND non-removable storage.[2] Additional storage is available via a hot swappable microSDHC card socket, which is certified to support up to 16 GB of additional storage.[46] The microSDHC card can be formatted with a supported file system such as ext2, ext3, FAT16 and FAT32.[citation needed]

The 32 GB eMMC is split into 3 partitions [47]:

* 2GB as ext3 mounted to /home
* 768MiB as swap
* the remainder as VFAT mounted to /home/user/MyDocs with about 25GB of free space.

The 256 MB NAND is formatted as UBIFS[48] and contains the bootloader, kernel and root directory "/"[citation needed] with about 100MB of free space.[49]

Programs larger than 500KB including dependencies should be stored in /opt which is symlinked to /home/opt and therefore located on the 2GB ext3 partition. The VFAT partition is also available for storage but needs to be used carefully as it is unmounted and exported if a usb cable is connected to the device.[49][50]

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

I have 27.22, less 227.6 and 1.07 user files.

It has 4kb of emails,19.5 MB of images and 102.1MB of vids (repsumably all stuff it came with (apart from the email) Then there's audio clips, web pages, contacts and documents and 'other files' to break down.

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

This is an old, false, rumor. Swap is on the 32GB eMMC.

You have less space available because, like the N810, Nokia ships maps for your region bundled on the device. Feel free to delete them if you don't believe you'll use them.

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

lolzers. So no one is able to run it then I take it? it's only 4 characters and an enter key.

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

Maps might take around 2GB, at least according to some early adopters.

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

Yes, it does, but nice to have when no Edge or 3G available.

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

Then your question is solved, right? ;)

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

But every region/country has different sizes and thus more or less map data.

edit:
I mean Rushmore maybe have the whole US preloaded while some european countries have their smallen country loaded?

I think that was what GeneralAntilles meant.

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

Just buy a memory card! Stop crying.

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

God, there was no reason for you to bump this old thread for such an idiotic reply.

But anyways, let me contribute to this thread.

Sorry for being a little late, but when I recieved my N900 I also had 25GB of free space on mass storage. Just as cortex suggested, what I found out was that there was a 2GB folder that was preloaded with map data for the United States used by Nokia Maps. That might be the reason you're down 2GB.

Re: Why only 25gb free?
 

Idiotic? In what way? Just because I'm using the word "Crying", to describe the whining & weeping that's on this thread?...

It's bloody facts, we get it, there's less memory than what it actually offers! It's been like that ever since there's been technology. If you're going to moan about a few Gigabytes then buy yourself a memory card? Stop stating the obvious.