hey

i was a total nub with all this, only had the phone 4 days and i managed to reduce my rootfs mem down to ZERO.

i couldnt uninstall any apps using app manager as there was "no free memory on deivce".

so i hunted around for some simple fixes. Probably made the problem worse in the long run but thats my fault for downloading apps and not really thinking about the consiquences.

anywho... i found this helped reduce my rootfs usage down by 14mb

root
rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*

that moved some "stuff"

app manager still wouldnt work mind, so i googled around again and found this fix for my next problem.

root
mkdir -p/var/lib/apt/lists/partial

now i was on a roll and thought i had became a linux pro. i then set about uninstalling all apps using app manager. which was now running like a dream....

however... my rootfs usage hasnt reduced down after uninstalling all my apps. i am running on just what came with the phone +rootsh

currently got 12.97mb left of free space on the sneaky russian.

was wondering if anyone can help with why?

reading forums i came to my own conclusion that there will still be a lot of file directorys in the /opt from the unoffical apps ive downloaded that may have not been removed correctly using uninstall

i do know how to remove directorys etc as i had problem with removing the custom levels from AngryBirds

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rm /home/opt/rovio/angrybirds/data/levels/pack2/*

this did the trick. i then went about removing the rovio folder using rmdir

could i use this method to delete some of the folders and files left from apps? or should i just reflash the mofo and start from scatch?


thanks for reading. ive learnt a lot about this phone in the last day. was on it all day at work tring to free up some rootfs and this finally worked with about 4% battery left. im now charging it ready for my next assult.

thanks,
stefan