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Duff is offline Duff
2010-04-07 , 10:16
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Hello, sorry for the noobish question, but what does roofts exactly represent?

Also, according to Conky; my roofts is at around 1.5mb to 9mb over 225mb

I heard that if your roofts is low, theres a chance for it to get bricked?
 
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2010-04-07 , 10:27
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Special memory on your phones 32GB storage, but it is faster, which is used to install new apps and packages. Poorly put together apps can take up unnecessary space and stop you from updating your phone and its apps.

There are ways to clear some space. just google it.
 
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2010-04-07 , 10:29
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run a command to delete .deb files which manual installations will leave behind: apt-get clean.

that should clean some space.

update: u need access to root to run that command.
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2010-04-07 , 10:36
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It's rootfs not roofts! so if you searched that's why nothing will have come up! BTW - Power Search is far better than ordinary search

Read this:

Rootfs

and

Free up rootfs
In the meantime to free up space immediatley, disable repositories that you have enabled in App Manager - if you have Testing or Dev enabled for example.

Hope that helps
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Duff is offline Duff
2010-04-07 , 17:45
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very much appreciated! ive tried to follow but only see an increase of rootfs by 2-3mb =(, how do i check whats taking up most of the rootfs space?
 
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2010-04-07 , 17:51
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just use the search. this has been covered a dozen times here already.
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2010-04-07 , 17:59
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How much free rootfs space do you have, again?

What kinds of problems are you having?

Did you read the Wiki on freeing up rootfs?
 
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2010-04-07 , 18:28
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originally 1mb of free rootfs, after disabling repositories like extra, devel and testing, and uninstalling several apps, moved themes, ran the free rootfs scripts and now at 9mb free rootfs, out of 220+mb.... no specific problem, just worried if my device bricks when its 0mb.
 
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2010-04-07 , 19:45
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Originally Posted by Duff View Post
originally 1mb of free rootfs, after disabling repositories like extra, devel and testing, and uninstalling several apps, moved themes, ran the free rootfs scripts and now at 9mb free rootfs, out of 220+mb.... no specific problem, just worried if my device bricks when its 0mb.
That's really not a lot, no - I'd suggest looking at StorageUsage - you can use it both to look for large files on the rootfs, and for finding what packages are taking up rootfs space. For the latter, you can also look at some scripts I've written.
 
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