[maemo-users] disk space running short on /

[From: Christer Eliasson]

The N810 have a internal memorycard that is non removable (as far as i  
know) so on that platform the $PATH bork wouldnt happen (hopefully ;)

But as you said it shouldnt be that much of a problem to make it work.

//Chris


20 okt 2008 kl. 19.45 skrev Denis Dimick:

> My Windowz phone lefts me choose to install on my SD card, maybe  
> Nokia will make this an option, or the package developers, since it  
> could be controlled my the .deb package. However, once you remove  
> the SD card, then your going to break your $PATH and what not when  
> trying to run an app that lives on the SD card and is not there.
>
> Denis
>
> On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 11:38 AM, Christer Eliasson <eliasson.christer at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
> I know about symlinks :p
>
> And yes as Kenneth pointed out it will bork on the next update.
>
> Making a symlink is just a workaround of the real problem.
>
> Ie not being able to choose flashing target (which would be nice) or
> defaulting on internal memorycard on N810.
>
> //Chris
>
>
> 20 okt 2008 kl. 19.27 skrev kenneth marken:
>
> > On Monday 20 October 2008 19:23:01 James Knott wrote:
> >> Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm running short of space on / (10 MB free) on my diablo N810 so
> >>> I have
> >>> to uninstall some apps to be able to install new apps (which
> >>> otherwise
> >>> fail leaving the system in an unknown state, not good).
> >>>
> >>> Is there a way to remove useless stuff (like translation,  
> temporary
> >>> downloads, etc...)? To safely (approved by Nokia) tell the system
> >>> to put
> >>> some system stuff to /media/mmc1 instead of /?
> >>
> >> One nice thing about Linux, is that you can use symbolic links to
> >> move a
> >> subdirectory to a different filesystem.  To do that, you create a  
> new
> >> directory on your SD-RAM card and then move the contents of the old
> >> directory to is.  After that's done, you can create the symlink, so
> >> that
> >> those files appear in the same location as before, even though
> >> they're
> >> on a different device.
> >
> > and expect the ssu to break, badly, on the next update...
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