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hey peeps was offline yesterday , installed ubuntu 9.10 on a dual boot with vista , thought the more i used linux the better to get to grips with how things tend to work , files involved , folder structures etc

ill also read through the extra links you provided

and b666m thanks for pointing out the most common/usefull commands

its really helped me and i can allways pop back to this thread and go through things

appreciated loads peeps thanks

one more thing bit off topic but on me mind a bit i have used about 69% of my rootfs and have about 70mb left is this ok when should i start worrying ive read when it fills up trouble can start

if it does fill up will a flash of the emmc and the o/s of the phone fix it via maemo flasher 3.5 which ive used allready :-) or wont i be able to flash it if this is filled up??

cheers hope your having a nice morning its freezing here lol :-)

thansk again

I have 40MB left on my rootfs and I'm ok, so you can be peaceful with your 70MB left. You should start worrying when you have filled it up nearly completely, but if you don't mess up with devel apps you'll never reach that point.

If you want to find out what packages occupy so much space on your rootfs (not now, just in case you have only a few MBs left), I suggest you use Storage Usage and its package scan feature.
It let you know if a package is non-optified and how much it takes in your rootfs, so that you can remove it.
Give it a try:

http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/storageusage/

buxz777 stop thinking in Symbian terms(i.e. locked down by default). Here you start out with full access. Anything that doesn't give full access has an artificial limit in it's own code(and should probably be replaced by something alternate). And as people said there are file managers out there that do it. You could even use ssh+scp(winscp) to manage files on your device from your windows system(search the forum for the exact instructions I won't rehash them). But sometimes you don't have anything other than a terminal that still works. So knowning how to use that is a good idea