Haven't done that yet - worried about the locale bit, for one. Maybe that's over-cautious, but I really don't want to be forced into flashing at this point and haven't fully investigated the startup yet.

No trouble with the existing setup (as described) as yet though.

I moved /var/lib/dpkg to /home/_var_lib_dpkg and linked it back. Now if the root gets full, I can still use the graphical tools. I have been thinking of moving the whole root on sd-card and try boot from it. Then I could scrub the memory on the device and leave it for testing. I had similar setup with N800 and it was helpful - no space problems what so ever. I haven't had time to try it yet.. but maybe soon..

well, just tried to move & link the whole /usr --> no good idea, device didn't start anymore - had to reflash.

now i just moved and re-linked the dir's as kwotski stated above and it works without any problems (also didn't recognize any mentionable performance issues)

Edit:
additionally i just moved/linked successfully (no problems, even after reboot):
-) /usr/lib/browser
-) /usr/lib/microb-engine
-) /usr/share/microb-engine
/Edit

after installing some apps i got error not enough memory in target location and couldn't install anything
so rebooted
after that app manager stopped showing any apps installed
here's log:
hildon-application manager 2.2.35-3
write:broken pipe
write:broken pipe
apt-worker exited
apt-worker: can't truncate lock /var/lib/hildon-application-manager/apt-worker-lock: no space left on device

and cannot uninstall anything
i understand that somehow app manager installed the apps on root and filled it up - guessing only (i'm a windows user)

tried deleting folders and files but nothing works
downloading flash file..


any help greatly appreciated

yes i've installed some apps from dev repository
not sure which one did it but
in terminal i did:
sudo gainroot
it shows ?:~#
then i did apt-get remove appinstaller 1.1 (my suspect )
and it gave me
dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to correct the problem
so i did: 'unable to open/create status database lockfile: No space left on device'

is the serpent eating it's own tail?

still hoping to solve it before flashing

edit:
so i've found this
but running sudo ./flasher-3.5 --enable-rd-mode
tried as root aswell - no message,nothing
rebooted just in case
didn't do anything
i'm too stupid with linux :/

edit2:

now tried restore factory defaults - it shows apps installed but cannot uninstal anything - even (i know i know don't slack me pls) in red pill mode
when i try uninstall anything log says apt-worker not handling unrelated package
and there are few:
pidgin-facebookchat.
hermes.
crazycat.
gonvert.
uqm.

Instead of symlinking for apt you can:

-Jeff
http://wiki.maemo.org/User:Jebba

Moved my /var/lib/dpkg and symlinked back like VRe did without any problems.

strange:

before moving i had 8.0M space left on device
after moving the 25.5M folder i have 12.5M space left on rootfs.

Sounds like that would be due to the compressed filesystem on rootfs?

Edit: See: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...974#post434974

Hello
a few days ago I have installed 3 small applications from ovi store: banderol, coin toss and tunewiki, the root memory went from 31,7 / 32.1 mb to 28.6 mb. Does this mean that all aplications still use a little bit of root memory? I now only have 28.6 and with future updates and applications this is very low, I have installed many applications but none extras-devel. And i have done some root cleaning.
Thanks

It's most likely a shared library they're using. If new updates are going to require more root space, there's going to have to be something done about the shared libraries first (particularly Qt).