cortina61 | # 1 | 2010-04-05, 19:53 | Report

I'm confused about the size of the N900 memory. Everything seems to say its 32gb and then people talk about memory cards too.
I dont understand how anyone would fill up this amount of space!

I thought 32gb was huge, I'm sure my old pc was 40 gb....

and then people talk about clearing memory to install updates

is it because a lot of space is taken up by the operating system ?

how can I find out how much memory space I have?

shadowjk | # 2 | 2010-04-05, 20:03 | Report

There's more than one kind of memory..

As for flash memory, the N900 has 256 megabytes + 32 gigabytes. The 256 megabyte one stores the operating system, the 32 gigabyte is used for the /home partition (2gig) and for /home/user/MyDocs, where media files such as videos go, and for swap (768M).

The problems can start if you install applications that use space on the 256 megabyte chip instead of on the 2 gigabyte /home partition on the bigger memory chip.

Applications in the extras repository are supposed to have gone through checks to make sure they don't use space on the wrong place. Applications in extras-devel and extras-testing might not have been tested for that, so people who have installed apps from there might have noticed that they've run out of space on the 256 megabyte chip, and can't upgrade the OS.

AndrewG | # 3 | 2010-04-05, 20:03 | Report

The memory full is rootfs, not your own space.
Look in settings > memory for the space you have left for your files.