Thread: N900 - Issues surrounding full root partition (No space left on device)
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Rob1n is offline Rob1n
2010-02-04 , 14:18
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Originally Posted by casinho23 View Post
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?
rootfs is a compressed file system, so that's probably why you're seeing more space used than there is available.

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/*.*
After that you'll need to uninstall any non-optified packages you've installed from extras-devel or extras-testing. Storage Usage can help you find these - if you've got it installed. If not, you can try using the perl scripts I posted here (or any of those others have posted).