Thread: Root space - What is "optifying"?
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Alex Atkin UK is offline Alex Atkin UK
2010-01-13 , 17:42
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#60
I used the following script from one of the many root space threads on here:

Code:
#!/bin/ash

mkdir -p /home/root/usr/share
cd /usr/
for FILE in games include local src var
do
mv $FILE /home/root/usr/
ln -s /home/root/usr/$FILE /usr/
done

mkdir -p /home/root/var/cache
cd /var/cache/
for FILE in apt
do
mv $FILE /home/root/var/cache/
ln -s /home/root/var/cache/$FILE /var/cache/
done

cd /usr/share/
for FILE in fonts icons locale mime nokia-maps pixmaps sounds themes tutorial-applet zoneinfo
do
mv $FILE /home/root/usr/share/
ln -s /home/root/usr/share/$FILE /usr/share/
done

mkdir /home/root/usr/share/games
ln -s /home/root/usr/share/games .
It freed me up around 30MB space and if anything, Maemo Maps seems to load FASTER not slower (quite a lot faster). Although its the first time I loaded it since the firmware update so maybe that sped it up?

Lets not forget, the MMC might be faster for some things as its not using CPU power for compression. Its all a CPU power vs IO performance juggling act, hard to know which is going to be fastest.

Moving the apt cache alone makes a huge difference and its silly it wasting space on root. Just enabling extras-testing and extras-devel but not installing anything, should NOT eat root space. Although I guess its a good idea to disable extras-tests and extras-devel before doing a firmware update anyway, but it was silly I had to do it just to free enough space.
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