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Re: How much space should be free in rootFS?

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Originally Posted by reinob (Post 1286771)

Don't even think about using the posted /sbin/preinit if you are asking this question. Not meaning to sound arrogant or anything, but this is not a plug-in replacement for anything.

I wanted him to post his preinit to *read* it, not to *install* it. You can do the same and take it from there.

LOL! I had a good giggle when I saw this. :)
Yes I knew you only wanted to read this. :)

btw reinob, this is the same preinit file that lets me do rootfs on eMMC. so, some mods u c r for that.

tonypower88, yes it is not meant to be used as is.
There is quite a bit more customizations elsewhere.
I could share the info but will rely on you to be responsible for your own decisions as I barely have time to help (gonna board a flight now in fact). You'd need to know how to debug n improvise on your own.
(ie: Mount of eMMC needs to be disabled in rcS-late or something to match with this preinit script, etc). If you know what that is and can improvise, then i'll post a few other things along if u r interested.

kh

Re: How much space should be free in rootFS?

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Originally Posted by gearspec (Post 1204682)

Initially it was 113 MB free. As I installed couple of libraries it was down to 104.4 MB

i think i did something wrong while trying to install gingerbread
output of df -h is
Nokia-N900:~# df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 227.9M 223.5M 396.0k 100% /

trying to install kernel and it says
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs# dpkg -i NITDroid-kernel-Mido.Fayad.deb
(Reading database ... 28975 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking nitdroid-kernel-2.6.28-06 (from NITDroid-kernel-Mido.Fayad.deb) ...
Android not found. MUST be mounted on '/and'
dpkg: error processing NITDroid-kernel-Mido.Fayad.deb (--install):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
NITDroid-kernel-Mido.Fayad.deb
Nokia-N900:/home/user/MyDocs#

pls help
thanks

Re: How much space should be free in rootFS?

This happens all the time. People try to copy the whole Android to /and. It does not fit, fills up the rootfs space and doesn't work anyway as it incomplete. Please note that it must be mounted on /and, not copied. Copy it somewhere with plenty of space and mount it to /and.

Re: How much space should be free in rootFS?

i have instaled gingerbread and its running fine

but rootfs in maemo is full.

pls guide me how to move and mount it via termnal or case.