rootfs full: please help!
 

Hi,

yesterday I got into a full rootfs problem and my n900 got unresponsive. So, I rebooted it. Then after, the phone boot fine but I couldn't resolve the problem.
First of all, many applications fail to run or run with problems: for example, multimedia app show no images even though they are still there...
More important, if I try to run in xterminal the following command:

df -h

I got nothing (just the headers line):

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on

Couldn't remove any application even from the command line (trying to free some space here):
for example:
Nokia-N900:/# apt-get remove tuxrace
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

and from there:

Nokia-N900:/# dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: unable to open/create status database lockfile: No space left on device

But how am I supposed to free space if it was like rootfs wasn't even mounted?

I know there are a lot of threads on the argument but I couldn't find anything related to my situation...

Any ideas?

Please help me!

Re: rootfs full: please help!
 

Something similar to your proplem is discussed here:

(Post #20)
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=66004&page=2

Or here:
(Post #6)
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=67712

Re: rootfs full: please help!
 

The rootfs and other filesystems are still mounted, otherwise your N900 wouldn't boot up, but since it is full mount can't write the information to the /etc/fstab file, though if you are interested you can find the list of mounts kept by the kernel in /proc/mounts.

To solve your problem you need to move something non-essential off of the rootfs, then you'll have space for dpkg to work and you'll be able to uninstall some programs.

Re: rootfs full: please help!
 

Just symlink libflashplayer from usr to opt to gain a few extra mb.
It's worth leaving it like that too.

Re: rootfs full: please help!
 

ok, thank you all for the quick reply!

yes, I moved some locale folders to the external flash and after reboot I could see commands responding as expected...

Now I'm trying to figure out what the hell is taking so much space!

Thanks again

Re: rootfs full: please help!
 

install storage usage, its really handy for seeing whats taking up large chunks of memory.

Re: rootfs full: please help!
 

yep, I did that thanks.

Re: rootfs full: please help!
 

try
apt-get autoclean
apt-get autoremove
that frees your rootfs a little bit up too

Re: rootfs full: please help!
 

This is the best I could do about it (see the image attached):
do you think is it normal?

Re: rootfs full: please help!
 

Please can u explain how I could do this?
N also please let me knw which files r non essential?
Thanks in Advance

Re: rootfs full: please help!
 

great reading here:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Free_up_rootfs_space