On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Disconnect <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just FYI, if you think back to the g1, OTA updates have been a part of
> android since the very first device. (In fact, if it hadn't been a
> requirement, the g1's crippling storage problems wouldn't be nearly as bad.
> Literally half of the flash is unavailable, much of it to facilitate OTA
> updating.)
>

30% of the storage is used by the cache partition.  The cache partition is
also used for other things such as downloading media and apps.  (It is the
main storage for the download manager that is visible in the browser, which
performs downloads and manages the storage to expunge old downloads as it
becomes full.  Though the UI is in the browser, it is a separate facility
and also used for example by Market to download apps.)

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