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sjgadsby is offline sjgadsby
2009-12-03 , 04:46
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#151
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knewter is offline knewter
2009-12-03 , 14:22
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#152
Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
The fix is to uninstall some apps - this is why its highly recommended DONT download from extras-devel.

Now that being said optifying an app is really not that hard so perhaps us devs can make an effort to optify right off the bat,
Hey conclusion jumpers I did NOT download from extras-devel. I hadn't even installed extras-testing yet, just most of the apps from extras. I ended up having to delete evernote to get some space back (inevitably another app would've worked). Then I rebooted, and I had way more space left on root.

Anyway, to reiterate: My issue had ZERO to do with extras-devel or extras-testing.
 
cenwesi is offline cenwesi
2009-12-03 , 14:25
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#153
is there a way to increase root?
 
Bratag is offline Bratag
2009-12-03 , 14:28
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#154
Originally Posted by knewter View Post
Hey conclusion jumpers I did NOT download from extras-devel. I hadn't even installed extras-testing yet, just most of the apps from extras. I ended up having to delete evernote to get some space back (inevitably another app would've worked). Then I rebooted, and I had way more space left on root.

Anyway, to reiterate: My issue had ZERO to do with extras-devel or extras-testing.
In that case things have been moved into extras without being optified - and thats not good.
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2009-12-03 , 14:29
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#155
Originally Posted by cenwesi View Post
is there a way to increase root?
no, the rootfs is on a seperate physical chip and cannot be changed.
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zaheerm is offline zaheerm
2009-12-03 , 14:42
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#156
Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
In that case things have been moved into extras without being optified - and thats not good.
Or that apt stores the full debs inside /var/cache/apt/archives/ and only periodically is that cleaned. This resides on / so users installing lots of apps will regardless of package being optified, find they will kill free space quickly.
 
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2009-12-03 , 14:46
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#157
AIUI the application manager doesn't do that though, so I suppose the question is, did the OP use apt-get, or the Application Manager GUI?
 
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2009-12-03 , 14:58
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Originally Posted by Bratag View Post
In that case things have been moved into extras without being optified - and thats not good.
For reference purposes, after having flashed my N900 with the release version of the firmware, the root FS was 62% full without having installed anything. After having installed just 9 apps and widgets from Extras only (no testing, no devel), it was 69% full already.

The apps were Bounce, rootsh, qik, recorder, tuner, AdBlock plus, VNC viewer, Documents to Go and the countdown widget.

After having installed another 14 apps (including a handful from testing this time), I'm now at 78% full. So my entirely unscientific observation leads me to think that the fill up rate is pretty constant and that, in practice, it'd be very quick and easy to fill up the device. I don't really have the time to prove this right and find the culprit at the moment though
 
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2009-12-03 , 16:51
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#159
I just happened to read this interesting thread, so I've tried the df command (which I didn't know about) on my N900 to check the free space. So, just to let you know...



rootfs 233344 183088 45972 80%
ubi0:rootfs 233344 183088 45972 80%


I only installed apps listed on the maemo5 download section in maemo.org, with the exception of fennec.

Installed apps are:

aMSN
Bounce Evolution
Conversations Inbox Desktop Widget
Facebook Installer / Facebook Widget & Photo Uploader (disabled)
OMWeather (with 2 extra icon sets)
Password Safe
rootsh
vim
vncviewer
zoutube
fennec
 
archebyte is offline archebyte
2009-12-03 , 17:16
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#160
Originally Posted by knewter View Post
I've got no space left on device, causing all manner of issues:

Nokia-N900-42-11:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 227.4M 225.9M 0 100% /
ubi0:rootfs 227.4M 225.9M 0 100% /
tmpfs 1.0M 224.0k 800.0k 22% /tmp
tmpfs 256.0k 76.0k 180.0k 30% /var/run
none 10.0M 80.0k 9.9M 1% /dev
tmpfs 64.0M 4.0k 64.0M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2.0G 116.3M 1.8G 6% /home
/dev/mmcblk0p1 27.0G 1.7G 25.3G 6% /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1 14.8G 10.2G 4.7G 69% /media/mmc1

I just got the phone today. I installed a good chunk of apps on it, but I don't think I was excessive. Also, installing apps shouldn't use up the 227M of root I have, surely. Can someone explain if I've done something wrong? I have to uninstall some things because no free space == shudder.

Anyway, I searched the forums and google, and didn't find any topic like this for the n900. Thanks in advance,

-Josh
This was a bug that was recently fixed.
 
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