my n900 is getting stuck on chroot I have 21.2011.38-1Tmaemo9.1+thumb0 with backupmenu 1.2.0-1 installed.
do I need to downgrade my initrd-progs? or upgrade backupmenu to latest devel package? both?

well I downgraded initrd-progs and backupmenu worked again.
after restoring rootfs I have 74.1m free space on rootfs vs 88.5m free on system I made backup of what gives? I have seen something regarding post 571 to 579 about compression and taking up less space ?