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hi, thanks for the brief information,,, now i understand what you mean. i also have little difficulties or lets say i am a new user trying to explore for Linux (Maemo N900),,, but i tried to used those stuff testing and devel in repos,,, now i cant download anymore saying "NOT ENOUGH....". Since you discuss something very informative here, maybe your knowledge can help me to get rid of this problem i hope you could help me to re solve this issue in installing,,, i tried to removed some but still i dont understand how to solve this, can't download update Maemo version in which 13.5MB only.

here's the message on my x-terminal, pls try to help me, thanks:

filesystem 1k-blocks used available use% Mounted on
rootfs 233104 192748 36076 84% /
ubi0:rootsfs 233104 192748 36076 84% /
tmpfs 1024 72 952 7% /tmp
tmps 256 76 180 30% /var/
run
none 10240 80 10160 1% /dev/
tmfs 65536 1 66532 0% /dev/
shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2064208 371080 1588272 19% /home
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5 2064208 371080 1588272 19% /usr/
lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
2064208 371080 1588272 19% /usr/
share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
2064208 371080 1588272 19% /usr/
lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
2064208 371080 1588272 19% /usr/
share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
2064208 371080 1588272 19% /usr/
lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1
28312128 5016192 23295936 18% /hom
/dev/mmcblk1p1 994432 789632 204800 79% /med
ia/mmc1

Originally Posted by Crashdamage View Post
First, it's not a folder, it's a partition. Second, do not delete anything in roofs! Like Rob1n said, reboot first, then uninstall anything you got from the devel repo. Reboot again after removing those apps. Do not use the devel repo again until you have a thorough understanding of what happens when you do, and how to fix things when they go bad.


Absolutely there is! Like, key system files. Again, do not delete anything in roofs!


No, the best way is to use only software properly packaged for Maemo 5. The rootfs cannot be significantly increased, especially not to 5GB, nor does it need to be. Do not try to modify your filesystem until you have a much more comprehensive understanding of Linux, how it works and is organized.

No offense, but you sound like so many new Linux users, who try to do far, far more than they should because they hear about this or that trick or program, and because with linux, they can. They try compiling software, running alpha software, download all sorts of things willy-nilly - generally try all kinds of stuff they would never dream of doing on a Windows box, get themselves in all kinds of trouble, then blame linux for being no good and/or hard to use.

Stick with the Nokia and Maemo repositories, maybe a little of Testing. Learn before you leap.