Re: N900 memory usage
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@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
N900 memory usage
Hi all; 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? Thanks in advance ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
RE: N900 memory usage
Kevin, et al. My understanding is that the 32 Gig of diskspace that comes in the N900 is broken into a few different pieces. These include pieces for the root file system, temporary files, a section for installable applications and a section for user data. The section for installable applications is 2 GB, so having 1.82 GB available is pretty good. I've got 1.4 GB available. The section for user data is 27 GB. I have 25.2 GB available. If you want to get much more details, go to the xterminal window and type df -h That displays all the different places data is stored and how much space is available in each one. My two cents, YMMV, Aldon -Original Message- From: maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org [mailto:maemo-users-boun...@maemo.org]on Behalf Of Kevin Kempter Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 4:14 PM To: maemo-users@maemo.org Subject: N900 memory usage Hi all; 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? Thanks in advance ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users ___ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
