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Hello everyone,

I was trying to install a third party app (just a few kB big) and my N900 told me that there is not enough space. So I checked in the file manager, which said that I've got 91,9 MB of free space for third party apps.
Do you know what might be the problem, causing this error message?

Best wishes,
Peter

You're probably out of rootfs space - see http://wiki.maemo.org/Rootfs for details.

I'd be surprised if File Manager has a section "Space for 3rd party apps". At least mine does not have.

If you start X Terminal and enter
df -h
what is the output?

If you go to the filemanager and click on the top, you can get information about the space used. Also about the space for third party apps.

Here is the output from df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 227.6M 149.6M 73.8M 67% /
ubi0:rootfs 227.6M 149.6M 73.8M 67% /
tmpfs 1.0M 80.0k 944.0k 8% /tmp
tmpfs 256.0k 84.0k 172.0k 33% /var/run
none 10.0M 84.0k 9.9M 1% /dev
tmpfs 64.0M 4.0k 64.0M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2.0G 1.7G 152.7M 92% /home
/home/opt 2.0G 1.7G 152.7M 92% /opt
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python2.5
2.0G 1.7G 152.7M 92% /usr/lib/python2.5
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/pyshared
2.0G 1.7G 152.7M 92% /usr/share/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/pyshared
2.0G 1.7G 152.7M 92% /usr/lib/pyshared
/opt/pymaemo/usr/share/python-support
2.0G 1.7G 152.7M 92% /usr/share/python-support
/opt/pymaemo/usr/lib/python-support
2.0G 1.7G 152.7M 92% /usr/lib/python-support
/dev/mmcblk0p1 27.0G 26.8G 184.1M 99% /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1 14.9G 14.6G 386.3M 97% /media/mmc1

So in the moment it seems to be 73,8 MB free space in rootfs, but I'm not able to install apps, not even small ones and I don't know why.
I hope you can help me.

67% ??? wwow, my phone out of the box was 70%
and btw the app may not b optimized

/dev/mmcblk0p1 27.0G 26.8G 184.1M 99% /home/user/MyDocs
/dev/mmcblk1p1 14.9G 14.6G 386.3M 97% /media/mmc1

These might be the problem if an app wants to use /opt.