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2010-01-19 , 14:40
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My device is showing as 16.3mb free for 'Installable Applications'. As I understand it this partition should be 2GB, therefore I've got 2GB of applications (or data) installed here? It was at 1KB earlier but I removed a couple of themes so I could continue to receive text messages.

By my calculations in the App manager I've got less than 50mb of apps installed.

So where or where is the other 1.9GB of stuff coming from? I can't think there is more than 100mb between texts and emails (and it's probably more like 10mb!).

How can I see what's 'in' here and what's taking up the space? In the past I have used a couple of testing/devel apps, but not for a while and I've flashed a number of times since. I didn't experience any problems with them at time anyway.

Thanks.
 
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2010-01-19 , 14:44
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It sounds as though you may have some apps from devel or testing installed which have gone to the root filesystem rather than /opt/ (which has the 2GB limit). The root file system is much smaller.

If you go to a terminal and type "df" (no quotes) what is the output?
 

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2010-01-19 , 14:49
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I've got a similar issue which I posted earlier in this thread:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=41329

It shows rootfs at 70% but to be honest, I don't understand the rest.

My Xterm info is posted on the other thread if anyone can help? Or merge threads?

Thanks guys!
 
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2010-01-19 , 15:09
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I had a similar situation and I figured out that I couldn't access the 2GB partition anymore.

Try cat /proc/mounts and check if /dev/mmcblk0p2 is mounted. If it isn't , there is probably some fault on it and you could try to fix it with

fsck /dev/mmcblk0p2
 

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2010-01-19 , 15:23
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Unfortunately, I couldn't get this to run. It says unknown directory. But if you look at what comes up when typing df on my other thread mentioned above, mmcblk is mentioned but I don't know what it means!

Sorry for being a complete noob!! And thanks guys
 
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2010-01-19 , 15:39
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Code:
BusyBox v1.10.2 (Debian 3:1.10.2.legal-1osso26+0m5) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs                  233224    210064     18880  92% /
ubi0:rootfs             233224    210064     18880  92% /
tmpfs                     1024        76       948   7% /tmp
tmpfs                      256        76       180  30% /var/run
none                     10240        80     10160   1% /dev
tmpfs                    65536         4     65532   0% /dev/shm
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
                        233224    210064     18880  92% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
                        233224    210064     18880  92% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
                        233224    210064     18880  92% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
                        233224    210064     18880  92% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
                        233224    210064     18880  92% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk1p1        15542936  13224192   2318744  85% /media/mmc1
/dev/mmcblk0p1        28312128   9843520  18468608  35% /home/user/MyDocs
~ $
 
Wes79 is offline Wes79
2010-01-19 , 15:51
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And mine says:
Filesystem lk-blocks Used Available Use% Mouned on
rootfs 233344 156680 72380 68% /
ubi0:rootfs 233344 156680 72380 68% /
tmpfs 1024 64 960 6% /tmp
tmpfs 256 72 184 28% /var
run
none 10240 72 10168 1% /dev
tmpfs 65536 4 65532 0% /dev
shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2064208 62824 1896528 3% /hom
/dev/mmcblk0p1 28312128 6564800 21747328 23% /hom
/user/MyDocs


thanks guys.
 
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2010-01-19 , 16:08
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@beli
last time I ran "fsck /dev/mmcblk0p2" the thing got f'd up and I lost all the data on it and had to re-flash. was SO lucky I'd made a backup!

/dev/mmcblk0p2 isn't mounted. Can I mount it without running fsck?

@Wes79 - Your mmcblk0p2 is mounted so I'm thinking we've got different problems?

Thanks.
 
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2010-01-19 , 16:26
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YAY! I like to be different, but on this occassion I really don't!

I've removed basically everything off my phone now, other than the music and a couple of films that I put on MyDocs but I've not had any issues with these before. They have been on since day 1.

Hmm, the saga continues!
 
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2010-01-19 , 16:53
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Originally Posted by cashclientel View Post
@beli
last time I ran "fsck /dev/mmcblk0p2" the thing got f'd up and I lost all the data on it and had to re-flash. was SO lucky I'd made a backup!

/dev/mmcblk0p2 isn't mounted. Can I mount it without running fsck?
You can try, but there's probably a reason it isn't mounted. I'd recommend the fsck beforehand.
 
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