User:Caze

Here I will note some things concerning diverse stuff around maemo on n900 that might come in handy later for me. Or maybe for you.

rootfs size problems
The filesystem rootfs, mounted in /, is a speciel partition of 227,8 mb containing some preinstalled programs, global configuration info and data. Some apps from "maemo extra devel" will also install there. A notable example is Abiword, which currently uses up 10mb on rootfs. You can check how much space is consumed totally by entering "df -h" in xTerminal (usually the first line of output). Even better, use storageuse, which shows a red circle and via "Scan Packages" function shows also which apps use what, where rootfs usage is in red. When you reflash, rootfs will be reset also (of course). But you would rather try the methods suggested in Free up rootfs space. There is also a nice script by User:Tanner, which i have modified to include some more directories:

dirs="usr/share/icons usr/share/nokia-maps usr/share/pixmaps usr/share/hildon-welcome usr/share/themes usr/share/fonts usr/share/locale usr/lib/locale var/lib/apt" if test -d /home/var/cache/apt; then # keep existing apt cache rm -rf /var/cache/apt ln -s /home/var/cache/apt /var/cache/apt else dirs="$dirs var/cache/apt" fi (cd / && du -sc $dirs) for d in $dirs; do    test -L /$d && continue echo moving /$d rm -rf /home/$d mkdir -p /home/$d cp -a /$d /home/$d/.. rm -rf /$d ln -s /home/$d /$d done
 * 1) !/bin/sh
 * 2) N900 script to safely free space on rootfs
 * 3) (c) 2010 by Thomas Tanner 
 * 4) licensed under GPLv3
 * 5) move root stuff to /home
 * 1) optional: var/lib/dpkg

i suggest you copy this to in some texteditor on your pc, save it, copy it to n900 connected via usb (don't save on fat partition on sd card but on ext3 partition somewhere else), disconnect, having installed rootsh, start xTerminal on n900, cd to where you saved the script, root chmod +x thisscript.sh ./thisscript.sh