Thread: Explain the filesystem to me please?
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2009-12-07 , 21:41
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Originally Posted by bguzmanz2 View Post
checking in terminal brings up 227 of total size. how can i manually install programs in the 2gb space? will this help with the out of memory errors? thanks guys and gals.
Any larger apps will install under /opt (which is a symlink to /home/opt), which provides 2GB so should be enough. It's only smaller apps (or those in the -devel or -testing repositories which haven't yet been optified) which will use up the root filesystem space.

There's also currently a bug when installing multiple applications where the downloaded data isn't properly deleted after installing (until after a reboot), which can lead to running out of free space temporarily. This should be fixed with the next firmware though.
 

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