OMG... Thank you! I had no idea this was going on. I had hardly any space left on my phone and this double-reboot trick recovered about 30 MB.
On Jan 12, 3:46 pm, "Justin (Google Employee)" <j...@google.com> wrote: > Here is some more information on what's happening. There is a problem > in yaffs2 where unlinked files are not removed from a check-pointed > filesystem. Whenever Android sleeps, it check-points the filesystem. > When you uninstall an app the files are unlinked. If the device then > goes to sleep before the unlinked files are actually removed, they > won't be. > > The proper way to work around this it to shut down your phone by > holding down the end call button until you get a dialog asking to shut > down your phone. Turn your phone back on. BEFORE your phone can sleep > after it reboot, shut it down again. This will clean your unlinked > files. > > This works because when the system starts it has no check-points in > the filesystem and one won't be created if the system doesn't sleep. > The unlinked files are actually removed then when the file system is > mounted or unmounted (I'm not sure which it actually is). > > Cheers, > Justin > Android Team @ Google > > On Jan 12, 1:56 pm, "Greg White" <debauchedsl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:54 PM, Joel Knighton > > <joel.knigh...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > > Okay, someone who can replicate this problem, can you perform a "cat > > > /proc/yaffs" and then post the output here. Curious to see the YAFFS > > > debugging info. > > > I don't have the output handy, but I went from ~12K unlinked files to ~2K. > > This makes a difference.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
