Hi, ext Kevin Kempter wrote: > I've bought a 16G SD card for my N900. When I go to Settings --> Memory I see > this: > > Nokia N900: > 21.13 GB Available > > Memory Card: > 11.10 GB Available > > Memory for installable applications > 1.82 GB available > > > Can anyone tell me what the "Memory for installable applications" is used for > and why do I have only 1.82 GB available? Is this a normal scenario? Yes. What you were thinking of installing that would fill that? The 1.82 GB is actually the amount reserved for the /home partition which includes user settings, mails, metadata indexer database, thumbnails etc. If that space becomes full, many things in the device stop working normally (fetching mails, indexing files etc), so you should make sure to leave there enough space. Normally (pre-installed) packages are installed on the rootfs which has much less space available, but 3rd party applications are recommended to be packaged such that they install (most of) their files to the larger /home partition (using the maemo optify helper) instead of to rootfs. Rootfs is 256MB, is compressed, faster (has different flash memory and file system) than the eMMC on which /home is mounted. But it's almost full (<100MB space free for non-compressed data, more for compressable data). So as a summary, depending on how the applications are packaged, you may actually have less space available. Package manager doesn't know how the installable packages are packaged and the Settings->Memory doesn't list free space on rootfs, you would need to use "df" in terminal to know better which is of course less than ideal. In Harmattan this is hopefully handled much better (no need for the optify hack to have more space for applications than is available on rootfs). - Eero _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
