The
Nokia N900 comes with a
root filesystem with a minuscule 256MB.
Nokia and the
Maemo community have done a good job of making Maemo work with this through the liberal use of
symlinks, but a limitation is still a limitation, and Nokia's still trying to get it right.
This morning I had about 27MB of free space, or about 10%, free. This hasn't been a big problem before, but today the first
Maemo update after I received my device was released, and it need about 14MB to hold the downloaded files, and would need about 17MB of space extra after extraction. After combing my
filesystem, I realized that I had over 6MB of
Maemo themes installed to the root filesystem.
After cleaning that up, I had 33MB free, which I would have thought were enough, but unfortunately, it wasn't for the
Maemo application manager. A solution that seemed to work was to do it the
old fashioned way and pull up an
xterm window and run
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade manually. That seemed to work just fine.