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2010-02-04
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#192
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Originally Posted by rickrvo
Run storage usage and tap on the title bar. From the popup menu, select "Scan Packages". After it's completed scanning, each application will have a small bar behind it - a green bar indicates optified, whereas a brown/red bar indicates that it uses rootfs space.
Rob1n, I've installed storage usage app but I still don't know how to see which apps are on rootfs.. :/
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2010-02-04
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#193
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hi please help, i canīt anything my rootfs is complete FULL ! 
i check with df-mh
after du -smh *
i saw that /usr is the directorie with most used space on rootfs (338mb but rootfs has only comlpete 227?)
what can i do?
i check with df-mh
after du -smh *
i saw that /usr is the directorie with most used space on rootfs (338mb but rootfs has only comlpete 227?)
what can i do?
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2010-02-04
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#194
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Originally Posted by Rob1n
I believe that Storage Usage incorrectly marks some optified packages as non optified. For example python2 and openttd. You can check this by trying to go to the path shown in Storage Usage with X Terminal. If it changed to /home/opt/something, then you know that it is optified.
Run storage usage and tap on the title bar. From the popup menu, select "Scan Packages". After it's completed scanning, each application will have a small bar behind it - a green bar indicates optified, whereas a brown/red bar indicates that it uses rootfs space.
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2010-02-04
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#195
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Originally Posted by casinho23
rootfs is a compressed file system, so that's probably why you're seeing more space used than there is available.
hi please help, i canīt anything my rootfs is complete FULL !
i check with df-mh
after du -smh *
i saw that /usr is the directorie with most used space on rootfs (338mb but rootfs has only comlpete 227?)
what can i do?
If you can get into App manager, then disable all the repositories - that'll free up a chunk of space. Otherwise, if you have rootsh installed, you can run (in X Terminal):
Code:
sudo gainroot rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*.*
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2010-02-04
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#196
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Originally Posted by Sasler
I'd guess it flags any package which uses more than X amount of rootfs (python2 has the main python library on rootfs, taking up over a meg), for some value of X. It's not entirely correct though, as it flags the other python libraries as well, but they're actually bind mounted from within /opt.
I believe that Storage Usage incorrectly marks some optified packages as non optified. For example python2 and openttd. You can check this by trying to go to the path shown in Storage Usage with X Terminal. If it changed to /home/opt/something, then you know that it is optified.
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2010-02-04
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#197
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Originally Posted by Rob1n
What about OpenTTD then? I think it should be now fully optified, yet according to Storage Usage it is not. Looking at the latest two comments here, it seems that it's a known issue.
I'd guess it flags any package which uses more than X amount of rootfs (python2 has the main python library on rootfs, taking up over a meg), for some value of X. It's not entirely correct though, as it flags the other python libraries as well, but they're actually bind mounted from within /opt.
I hope it will be fixed soon as this is rather useful app.
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2010-02-05
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#198
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Originally Posted by Rob1n
No, it doesn't. Python installs into /usr but uses bind mounts to actually expose /opt/pymaemo into the rootfs (rather than symlinks).
I'd guess it flags any package which uses more than X amount of rootfs (python2 has the main python library on rootfs, taking up over a meg), for some value of X. It's not entirely correct though, as it flags the other python libraries as well, but they're actually bind mounted from within /opt.
Any piece of software which claims to show whether a package is optified needs to be aware of pymaemo-optify and what it does.
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2010-02-05
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Originally Posted by Jaffa
That's what I said, isn't it?
No, it doesn't. Python installs into /usr but uses bind mounts to actually expose /opt/pymaemo into the rootfs (rather than symlinks).
Any piece of software which claims to show whether a package is optified needs to be aware of pymaemo-optify and what it does.
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2010-02-05
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#200
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Originally Posted by qgil
If this would be true I'd be happy, however it seems not to entirely be. If I look e.g. at the installed themse hildon-theme-alpha and hildon-theme-beta I can't see much optifications. 14mb in /usr/share is quite a lot considering the overall root size.
This happens most probably because you are installing applications from extras-devel that haven't gone through the process of using the internal memory card to install files.
If you stick to Nokia and Extras repositories then you will get software that has gone through a QA check testing (among other things) that the files installed take as little as possible from the root partition.
I believe we need a explanatory wiki page somewhere to point users in the same situation because the questions is coming quite often. Please don't install software from extras-devel unless you know what you are doing.
See the technical explanation at http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...opt_and_MyDocs
PS: can you please share the thicker apps you had installed to see where we should put our attention first? Feel free filing bugs asking them to use /opt and MyDocs as much as possible as explained in the link above.
For testing I currently moved /usr/share to /home/opt and linked it back to /usr, this way i can test more applications without running out of space in /. Not sure if this is the best approach to work around the limited space.
Does a debian package provide not only the file list but also sizes of the files inside by any chance? then a check would be possible before actually installing a package that tells the user if it might fill up /. something like
"This package will use
12mb in opt partition
34kb in root partition"
That would be way more helpful than just to know the overall required disk space.
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