Try copying 20M files to the rootfs?
XXXXX@nc4200:~$ ssh root@192.168.X.X root@192.168.X.X's password: BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso30+0m5) built-in shell (ash) Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. Nokia-N900:~# cd / Nokia-N900:/# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 227.6M 205.6M 17.9M 92% / Nokia-N900:/# touch file Nokia-N900:/# chattr -c file Nokia-N900:/# dd if=/dev/zero of=file bs=4096 dd: writing 'file': No space left on device 6243+0 records in 6242+0 records out Nokia-N900:/# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 227.6M 227.6M 0 100% / Nokia-N900:/# ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25567232 Nov 7 09:37 file Nokia-N900:/# rm file Nokia-N900:/# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 227.6M 203.9M 19.6M 91% / Nokia-N900:/# dd if=/dev/urandom of=file bs=4096 dd: writing 'file': No space left on device 6245+0 records in 6244+0 records out Nokia-N900:/# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 227.6M 227.6M 0 100% / Nokia-N900:/# ls -l file -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25575424 Nov 7 09:38 file Nokia-N900:/# sync Nokia-N900:/# rm file Nokia-N900:/# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 227.6M 204.3M 19.1M 91% / Nokia-N900:/# sync Nokia-N900:/# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 227.6M 203.9M 19.6M 91% /