[maemo-users] how to free up space in rootfs

[From: Luke Reeves]

I ended up just using the standalone flashing utility (after backing up 
my data) to update:

http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/maemo-dev-env-downloads.php

It works fine, but you'll have to restore afterward and do some 
reconfiguration.

	Luke

On 2/25/2010 4:50 PM, daniel young wrote:
> ok so now im trying to update to Maemo 3.2010.02-8.002 which is a total
> size of 16.2 Mib.  I have 40 Mib of free space in my rootfs but it still
> says i dont have enough free space.  any ideas
>
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Luke Reeves <luke at neuro-tech.net
> <mailto:luke at neuro-tech.net>> wrote:
>
>     There's no way to do that automatically that I know of - you
>     basically have to rely on most packagers putting things in the /opt
>     partition as opposed to the root file system.
>
>             Luke
>
>
>     On 2/25/2010 4:35 PM, daniel young wrote:
>
>         of course just a google away sorry for a dumb question.  i cant
>         find how
>         to make it save the extras-devel and testing into a different
>         partiton.
>         ideas
>
>         On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Paul Hartman
>         <paul.hartman+maemo at gmail.com
>         <mailto:paul.hartman%2Bmaemo at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:paul.hartman%2Bmaemo at gmail.com
>         <mailto:paul.hartman%252Bmaemo at gmail.com>>>
>
>         wrote:
>
>             On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:00 PM, daniel young
>         <djyoung4 at gmail.com <mailto:djyoung4 at gmail.com>
>         <mailto:djyoung4 at gmail.com <mailto:djyoung4 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>          > ok so i am trying to update to the most recent release of maemo.
>               i think
>          > its a bug where any apps you install from the maemo extras-devel
>             get saved
>          > in rootfs.  it might be the apps from maemo extras-testing too
>             but im not
>          > sure.  so apparently i have installed too many of them and i have
>             no more
>          > room left in rootfs.  my question is whats the best way to go
>             about making
>          > room.  should i uninstall some of the maemo extras-devel and how
>             do i know
>          > which ones those are.  or should i just delete data out of rootfs
>             and if so
>          > how would i do that.  thanks in advance.
>
>         http://wiki.maemo.org/Free_up_rootfs_space
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