Hi,

yesterday I got into a full rootfs problem and my n900 got unresponsive. So, I rebooted it. Then after, the phone boot fine but I couldn't resolve the problem.
First of all, many applications fail to run or run with problems: for example, multimedia app show no images even though they are still there...
More important, if I try to run in xterminal the following command:

df -h

I got nothing (just the headers line):

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on

Couldn't remove any application even from the command line (trying to free some space here):
for example:
Nokia-N900:/# apt-get remove tuxrace
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem.

and from there:

Nokia-N900:/# dpkg --configure -a
dpkg: unable to open/create status database lockfile: No space left on device

But how am I supposed to free space if it was like rootfs wasn't even mounted?

I know there are a lot of threads on the argument but I couldn't find anything related to my situation...

Any ideas?

Please help me!

Something similar to your proplem is discussed here:

(Post #20)
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=66004&page=2

Or here:
(Post #6)
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=67712

The rootfs and other filesystems are still mounted, otherwise your N900 wouldn't boot up, but since it is full mount can't write the information to the /etc/fstab file, though if you are interested you can find the list of mounts kept by the kernel in /proc/mounts.

To solve your problem you need to move something non-essential off of the rootfs, then you'll have space for dpkg to work and you'll be able to uninstall some programs.

Just symlink libflashplayer from usr to opt to gain a few extra mb.
It's worth leaving it like that too.

ok, thank you all for the quick reply!

yes, I moved some locale folders to the external flash and after reboot I could see commands responding as expected...

Now I'm trying to figure out what the hell is taking so much space!

Thanks again

install storage usage, its really handy for seeing whats taking up large chunks of memory.

yep, I did that thanks.

try
apt-get autoclean
apt-get autoremove
that frees your rootfs a little bit up too

This is the best I could do about it (see the image attached):
do you think is it normal?

Please can u explain how I could do this?
N also please let me knw which files r non essential?
Thanks in Advance