Re: how to free up space in rootfs

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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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<mailto:luke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> 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@xxxxxxxxx
        <mailto:paul.hartman%2Bmaemo@xxxxxxxxx>
        <mailto:paul.hartman%2Bmaemo@xxxxxxxxx
        <mailto:paul.hartman%252Bmaemo@xxxxxxxxx>>>

        wrote:

            On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:00 PM, daniel young
        <djyoung4@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:djyoung4@xxxxxxxxx>
        <mailto:djyoung4@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:djyoung4@xxxxxxxxx>>> 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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