On 12/14/05, Michael P. Lococo <mpl22 at cornell.edu> wrote: > > > The only problem: both 'free', '/proc/meminfo' and the little > > status bar plug-in all report far more memory in use than I'd > > expect to see. I _know_ I deleted the contents of > > /var/lib/install (as well as ~/MyDocs), and when I install new > > programs I see my memory used go up. > > free and meminfo measure RAM usage. Try df or the memory control panel to > measure flash usage. 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. Is there a compelling reason to reformat the card? I haven't yet, but am > planning to try mounting the MMC without NOEXEC and just symlinking > /var/lib/install to a directory on the VFAT partition. Am I doomed to > failure? 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). Mike > > PS It might be polite to move this conversation to the users list at some > point. Done. I'm not sure on proper netiquette though, so be gentle ;-) Brad. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20051214/50a041d7/attachment.htm
