Thread: N900 - Issues surrounding full root partition (No space left on device)
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2010-02-05 , 13:27
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#200
Originally Posted by qgil View Post
This happens most probably because you are installing applications from extras-devel that haven't gone through the process of using the internal memory card to install files.

If you stick to Nokia and Extras repositories then you will get software that has gone through a QA check testing (among other things) that the files installed take as little as possible from the root partition.

I believe we need a explanatory wiki page somewhere to point users in the same situation because the questions is coming quite often. Please don't install software from extras-devel unless you know what you are doing.

See the technical explanation at http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...opt_and_MyDocs

PS: can you please share the thicker apps you had installed to see where we should put our attention first? Feel free filing bugs asking them to use /opt and MyDocs as much as possible as explained in the link above.
If this would be true I'd be happy, however it seems not to entirely be. If I look e.g. at the installed themse hildon-theme-alpha and hildon-theme-beta I can't see much optifications. 14mb in /usr/share is quite a lot considering the overall root size.

For testing I currently moved /usr/share to /home/opt and linked it back to /usr, this way i can test more applications without running out of space in /. Not sure if this is the best approach to work around the limited space.

Does a debian package provide not only the file list but also sizes of the files inside by any chance? then a check would be possible before actually installing a package that tells the user if it might fill up /. something like
"This package will use
12mb in opt partition
34kb in root partition"
That would be way more helpful than just to know the overall required disk space.
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