´cause in the actual times most people are used to have cards with 8 or 16 megs this should be possible if not to much data on other partitions.
Or do i missunderstand and it is not necessary to backup *all* data on card temporally?

But one thing is clear, if it would be possible to fix this boring issue without losing data... - then it would be one big step ahead...
So much software out there to make maemo-devices just a perfect little mobile pc - but useless if you cant install them due to restrictions of filling the root partition...

So I would really really like to see such an update

btw:
Is there any chance ("how to" perhaps) to clean root partition manually? in my N900 it´s filled by more than 90% and i dont´t like the thought not being able to install more apps. uninstalling apps doesn´t free the memory again? And the archive for apt still is linked to the home-dir...