rootfs is constantly a bit of a problem ..

today i completely run out of it. and then after reboot bang 30MB free. Where is that coming from? Who is holding on to those i guess temp files? Why is a reboot fixing that? That shouldnt be needed..

Annoying thing is that if you run out of space on rootfs even sending an sms is impossible somehow (constantly telling me no space left)

But i got a tip that i should look where the app manager does download applications or updates.. So i enabled redd pill and looked if download to mmc was enabled. It was enabled but then my eye did see the setting, show all packages that was disabled, so i enabled that and then press update..

Now i did see a lot of packages that where new.. like python and i did here that python was being optified, which is a good thing because that one takes about 30MB on rootfs in the usr/lib folder.

So i updated them all and yes my free space jumped from 30MB to 50MB!

They are creating unbreakable links by using mount -bind i believe from things like /opt/pymaemo/user/lib/python2.5 to /usr/lib/python2.5

i have to say its a very good start!

This is due to bug 5450 https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5450 , which is going to be fixed with firmware update.

thanks helped me also to free at least some 5-10MB