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rjzak 2009-12-08 19:24
Re: Explain the filesystem to me please?
 
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Originally Posted by eMHa (Post 417166)
Before someone asks, 32GB for the N900 means:
32GB = 32000000000 Byte = 29.8 Gibibyte

The table on http://wiki.maemo.org/N900_filesystem has Gibibyte.
Who's the ***** who decided that the world's capacities should be in Base 10, when the world of bits N bytes is ruled in Base 2?

In this case, Nokia is no worse than Apple for fooling people into thinking that Snow Leopard gave them more disk space, when in reality they changed from Base 2 to Base 10. These tech companies must think we're all ignorant tools.

Rob1n 2009-12-08 20:09
Re: Explain the filesystem to me please?
 
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Originally Posted by rjzak (Post 417186)
Who's the ***** who decided that the world's capacities should be in Base 10, when the world of bits N bytes is ruled in Base 2?
The question's more which idiot decided to use established global identifiers (k, M, G, etc.) for non-standard values. The SI multipliers had been around for hundreds of years before binary computers came along.

mark-maemo 2009-12-08 20:12
Re: Explain the filesystem to me please?
 
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Originally Posted by Rob1n (Post 415370)
Any larger apps will install under /opt (which is a symlink to /home/opt), which provides 2GB so should be enough. It's only smaller apps (or those in the -devel or -testing repositories which haven't yet been optified) which will use up the root filesystem space.

There's also currently a bug when installing multiple applications where the downloaded data isn't properly deleted after installing (until after a reboot), which can lead to running out of free space temporarily. This should be fixed with the next firmware though.
In what manner do you reboot the device? Do you bring up the terminal and type reboot like you do on a standard linux machine?

Rob1n 2009-12-08 20:15
Re: Explain the filesystem to me please?
 
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Originally Posted by mark-maemo (Post 417285)
In what manner do you reboot the device? Do you bring up the terminal and type reboot like you do on a standard linux machine?
I just switched off (from power button) and on again.


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