Problem Freeing Up Space In /system

[phaze3131]

Hey guy I am having problems with space in my /system folder and I need some help

I am trying to patch a new framework-res.apk but it is 5mb and in Root Explorer it says my system is using 137.78MB and has free 2.59MB.

Does anyone know why or what could be here that is taking up so much room. I know I put a facebook.apk and pandora.apk in the /system/app folder because I wanted the skinned but many people have done this without trouble.

Thanks for the help.

[mjones1052]

Hey guy I am having problems with space in my /system folder and I need some help

I am trying to patch a new framework-res.apk but it is 5mb and in Root Explorer it says my system is using 137.78MB and has free 2.59MB.

Does anyone know why or what could be here that is taking up so much room. I know I put a facebook.apk and pandora.apk in the /system/app folder because I wanted the skinned but many people have done this without trouble.

Thanks for the help.

We were emailing, but yea, this is really weird. Normally Droid's should have 261 mb, at least that's what mine says. Try maybe pushing it with ADB as opposed to copying through root explorer?

[phaze3131]

but why does root explorer show a wrong amount? Now I just wanna fix this problem before I go installing themes sucks.

[mmitchell816]

If you go into a terminal on your phone and type df it will pull up all of the blocks and where they are mounted and how much space is left.

its like if you were to take a windows computer and a hdd with lots of small partitions and put the
windows on partition a,
programs on partition b,
user data on partition c,
and temp files on partition d.

even if the whole hdd has 20gigs free that doesn't mean that any of the partitions can use it. once your /system directory is full its full

the /system has a total of 140MB usable before any system files are placed on it
/data has 260MB
/cache has 94MB
/config has 1.5MB

try moving some apps that aren't required in the /system/app directory into the /data/app directory

[SANhacker]

So we can look at /system /data /sdcard /... as partitions with limits to each.
Thanks for the great explanation and analogy.

[mmitchell816]

Yes you can and like i said use the df command(need busybox installed) but yeah from any where just type df and enter and presto each "partition" as you could put it and the space used and space left.

And programs can go in either the /system/app or /data/app

different roms use different amounts of space like the droidmod 1.0 leaves me with ... last time i checked i think 30MB free on the system block

while Simpply Stunning v100(2.1android) left me with like 1-2MB on the system block after i got my apps on it

[SANhacker]

Ahh. So since /system/app and /data/app are in my path it doesn't matter where I put the app. I also see it is "block" not "partition" in the UNIX world.

I need to go grab my "UNIX for Dummies" book. I've worked on a lot of operating systems through the years, "cough" pre-DOS "cough", and had been trying to avoid UNIX. Thanks again.

[mmitchell816]

yeah i know what you mean.

Im no unix/linux expert but i do work on many linux servers every day (all command based, no GUI) and am starting to like it. and there are partitions in unix/linux. Like windows uses fat32,ntfs, etc linux uses ext2,ext3,etc

the reason i was saying blocks is because of how they are mounted on the phone as a mtdblock

unix/linux can be a lot of fun once you get used to it. Especially the terminals. lol i cant stand linux gui. idk why but i keep using windows for that reason! lol

[phaze3131]

If you go into a terminal on your phone and type df it will pull up all of the blocks and where they are mounted and how much space is left.

its like if you were to take a windows computer and a hdd with lots of small partitions and put the
windows on partition a,
programs on partition b,
user data on partition c,
and temp files on partition d.

even if the whole hdd has 20gigs free that doesn't mean that any of the partitions can use it. once your /system directory is full its full

the /system has a total of 140MB usable before any system files are placed on it
/data has 260MB
/cache has 94MB
/config has 1.5MB

try moving some apps that aren't required in the /system/app directory into the /data/app directory

Ok but my system/data doesn't have any large files at all, the only 2 I added were pandora and facebook and they are not large. So what files should I move around I'm really scared to mess something up.

How can I breakdown what each folder size is then maybe i could narrow down the problem...

Just frustrating I don't get how I am the only one with this problem of only 2MB free I'm using BB 2.1

Edit: just did a new install of BB 2.1 v0.5 and system has 4.36MB free, but the framework-res.apk is over 5MB so is this the problem?

Editx2: removed live wallpapers and now I have 8.5MB free, but I tried MM again but still have stock notification images this sucks why me I gotta be doing something wrong but I keep following the directions.

[mmitchell816]

I sorry man the first thing i would do is boot in to sprecovery and wipe the system. maybe there are some stale files that aren't getting erased.

and if you have busybox installed you can go into any directory and type ls -al and you will get a print out of the size, permisions, last time edited, and file name.