Originally Posted by nuke

1) I was receiving the error message :

Unable to recieve messages. It says Device Storage full

2)

Code:

 Nokia-N900:/#df -h

Code:

Nokia-N900-42-11:~/.cache/chromium/Cache# df 
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                  233344    233340         0 100% /
ubi0:rootfs             233344    233340         0 100% /
tmpfs                     1024        64       960   6% /tmp
tmpfs                      256        80       176  31% /var/run
none                     10240        72     10168   1% /dev
tmpfs                    65536         4     65532   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2         2064208    202936   1756416  10% /home
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
                       2064208    202936   1756416  10% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
                       2064208    202936   1756416  10% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
                       2064208    202936   1756416  10% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
                       2064208    202936   1756416  10% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
                       2064208    202936   1756416  10% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1        28312128   1376576  26935552   5% /home/user/MyDocs

3) Clear apt cache

Run following command (has to be done as root)

Code:

  apt-get clean

4) Remove unused dependencies

Run following command (has to be done as root)

Code:

 apt-get autoremove

Code:

Nokia-N900:/# df -h

Code:

Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                  227.9M    189.6M     34.1M  85% /
ubi0:rootfs             227.9M    189.6M     34.1M  85% /
tmpfs                     1.0M     64.0k    960.0k   6% /tmp
tmpfs                   256.0k     80.0k    176.0k  31% /var/run
none                     10.0M     72.0k      9.9M   1% /dev
tmpfs                    64.0M      4.0k     64.0M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2            2.0G    198.3M      1.7G  10% /home
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
                          2.0G    198.3M      1.7G  10% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
                          2.0G    198.3M      1.7G  10% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
                          2.0G    198.3M      1.7G  10% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
                          2.0G    198.3M      1.7G  10% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
                          2.0G    198.3M      1.7G  10% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1           27.0G      1.3G     25.7G   5% /home/user/MyDocs

This solved the issue in my case, seems that if the rootfs is 100%
you will get the error.

http://wiki.maemo.org/Free_up_rootfs_space