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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael P. Lococo</b> <<a href="mailto:mpl22@cornell.edu">mpl22@cornell.edu</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">> The only problem: both 'free', '/proc/meminfo' and the little<br>> status bar plug-in all report far more memory in use than I'd
<br>> expect to see. I _know_ I deleted the contents of<br>> /var/lib/install (as well as ~/MyDocs), and when I install new<br>> programs I see my memory used go up.<br><br>free and meminfo measure RAM usage. Try df or the memory control panel to
<br>measure flash usage.</blockquote>
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<div>Of course. But the memory control panel is the easiest to use, and it reports the same thing. Installing programs - like bash, for example - to /var/lib/install causes memory usage to increase. I can see some use occuring, but I guess I need to run more tests.
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Is there a compelling reason to reformat the card? I haven't yet, but am<br>planning to try mounting the MMC without NOEXEC and just symlinking
<br>/var/lib/install to a directory on the VFAT partition. Am I doomed to<br>failure?</blockquote>
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<div>Well, it's my understanding that VFAT is a problem - it doesn't support long file names and I think there are other issues (I hope someone else who knows this better chimes in). </div><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Mike<br><br>PS It might be polite to move this conversation to the users list at some<br>point.</blockquote>
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<div>Done. I'm not sure on proper netiquette though, so be gentle ;-)</div>
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<div>Brad.</div></div>