Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

OK I think I narrowed my problem down to this line:

/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /home

Could somene a bit more learned in linux please confirm that this is not the n900s own internal storage before I attempt to unmount this. Also, will the command "unmount /dev/mmcblk0p2 " do the trick?

The full text of the line as it appears when the mount command is entered is:

/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=continue,commit=1,data=writebac k)

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

/dev/mmcblk0p2 mounted to /home it is of course Maemo's optFS partition on internal eMMC.

The unmount command is umount without 'n', but why do you want to unmount /home ?

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

As I understand it, /dev/mmcblk0p2 is where /home is located. /home includes many configuration files, etc and /opt (where all the "optified" stuff is located). If you unmount it, you'll likely have problems (a lot of stuff will stop working).

It should be 2GB in size, so depending on what you installed in maemo and what you copied over for nitdroid, you could have filled it up. Best thing to do is to delete the nitdroid files.

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

OK thank you- I will leave that well alone and not touch it.

I don't know why my /home thinks it is full though. When looking on midnight commander is says there is space there, but on the disk usage app it is full and the characters are all squares ( yeah- very weird) and app manager won't let me update anything cos it says /home is full.

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

You have installed nitdroid on /and which is bounded to /home so you have installed nitdroid on /home and naturally the free space on /home is decreased by amount consumed by Android.

The original /home contains only 3 directories (lost+found, opt and user) and no file:
All other files and directories you see in /home are for Android

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

Thanks fabry. I'll go see if there is anything big in there I can delete and see if that solves it. According to conky though, there is 105.02mb free, that is what's so puzzling why it is telling me there is no space when there is

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

I can confirm reboots that jakiman mentioned. Also random reboots are frequent.

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

hey

u can use my custom emmc to increase home partition to 5 dr 8 giga
and u won't have any problems about space anymore

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

Sounds like maybe the partiton has gotten corrupted? If you are using power kernel, I think there is a setting to fsck (scan) the partitions on boot. You may want to look into that.

Re: [RELEASE] Android Gingerbread 2.3.1 (Experimental)
 

That would be because it is an ext3 (I think) partition, ext2/3/4 by default reserve 5% of the space for superuser use, so the superuser has space to work with to fix any problems caused by the partition being filled up, it also gives some space for the driver to work with to minimise fragmentation (though you typically want more like 10-15% for that), fragmentation doesn't cause as much of a performance impact on a SSD as it does on a hard drive, but you probably don't want it getting too bad. You can reduce or remove the reserved space using the tune2fs utility if you want to, but it is probably best to leave it as it is