How to free up space on the device?

answered 2014-04-23 18:55:31 +0200

mosen
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http://mosushi.de/

Just wanted to promote native sailfishapp "Space Inspector" by Jens Klingen available from warehouse as solution. It does a perfect job of showing foldersizes in a map just like baobab on desktop linuxes. Nice to find that broken 1,6gig asphalt8.apk that stuck during install :D

answered 2014-02-04 16:52:29 +0200

holgern
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updated 2014-02-05 14:49:09 +0200

I wrote a small script which bind some directories from the sdcard to /sdcard/data in order to save some space. My sdcard is ext4 but this should not matter... On my SDDisk i have a directory with a point e.g. .spotify and my script maps this to /sdcard/data/Spotify_dir

Content of bind_dirs.sh:

#!/bin/bash
SDCARD=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/media/sdcard/
dir1=/data/sdcard/Android/data/com.spotify.mobile.android.ui/files/spotifycache/Storage
#cutespotfy:
#dir1 = /home/nemo/.local/share/harbour-cutespotify/Storage
if mount | grep "on ${dir1} type" > /dev/null
then
umount $dir1
fi
mount -o bind $SDCARD.spotify $dir1

Here is also a script for more than one directory: bind_dirs2.sh:

#!/bin/bash
SDCARD=$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/media/sdcard/
dir1=/data/sdcard/Android/data/com.spotify.mobile.android.ui/files/spotifycache/Storage
sddir1=.spotify
dir2=/data/sdcard/something
sddir2=.data/something
dir3= /home/nemo/.local/share/harbour-cutespotify/Storage
sddir3=.cutespotify
dir_array=($dir1 $dir2 $dir3)
sddir_array=($sddir1 $sddir2 $sddir3)
for ((i=0; i<${#dir_array[@]}; i++))
do
if mount | grep "on ${dir_array[$i]} type" > /dev/null
then
umount ${dir_array[$i]}
fi
mount -o bind $SDCARD${sddir_array[$i]} ${dir_array[$i]}
done

This script must be run as root in a terminal. It checks if the dir is already mounted, so it doesnt matter if the script is called twice. In order to give android write access to .spotify you have to do the following

devel-su
cd /run/user/100000/media/sdcard
mkdir .spotify
chmod 777 .spotify
mv {spotify_dir}/* .spotify
sh bind_dirs.sh

Before mounting the directory $dir1 in /data/sdcard should be empty. It is the best to move all content to .spotify.

The script has to be run every time the device was restarted.

answered 2014-02-05 12:48:44 +0200

vbregier
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http://www.are-ata.org/

I can't access it using Linux Mint other than via SSH

I recommend the excellent baobab from your linux, then.

It can analyze the disk space of a distant folder via ssh (Analyzer -> Scan Remote Folder -> Service type: SSH), and displays disk usage of subdirectories in a nice graphical chart, so you can easily see what takes up most of the disk space. And you can navigate into the subdirectories to investigate further.

answered 2014-02-05 12:15:12 +0200

melg01
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updated 2014-02-05 14:21:25 +0200

The workaround (not the perfect solution) for accessing your Micro SD card from any Windows PC through USB cable connection is described in the above comment from @Markkybox and in other questions at this website. Because I can't promote his comment to an answer, here again the steps:

• Connect a USB cable between your Jolla and your Windows PC. Your Jolla shows now the message "USB cable connected" --> select "PC connection". Your Jolla shortly displays an informational message "Sync and connect in use" (and then "charging")
• Open Jollas Terminal. You don't have to change to devel-su user.
• In the Terminal type the following commands:

bash-3.2$ cd ~ 
bash-3.2$ ln -s /run/user/100000/media/sdcard

• You can verify the created link with a simple ls -la command, and the contents with ls -la sdcard
• Close the Terminal and transfer files through the Windows Explorer to Sailfish\Phone Memory\sdcard

It works great for me, I have all my Music on a 32 GB Micro SD card (FAT32 formatted from vendor) and the mediaplayer recognizes it. Sometimes there seems to be a glitch that prevents Jolla from seeing the sdcard though. Don't panic, try one of the solutions described in other Questions on this website, or reboot your phone or try removing and reinserting the sdcard (hopefully they will resolve this annoyance).

For more advanced use of the sdcard from other apps, try the answer from @holgern. Although I very much hope Jolla would implement a better and general solution for selecting different kinds of storage (internal, sdcard, network share, cloud) from any app.

answered 2014-04-23 23:53:56 +0200

Badevil
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Hi, I solved my "problem" with the space and usage of Spotify more or less like the other guys here but without scripted binds and so on.

Filesystem                   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                       14G  2.6G   11G  19% /
/dev/mmcblk1p1               60G  3.1G   55G   6% /media/sdcard/73f2d18a-2ce8-4811-b061-1e21a1dcf212

I just moved the "Storage" folder to my card and created a soft link (ln -s /media/sdcard/73f2d18a-2ce8-4811-b061-1e21a1dcf212/.Spotify/Storage Storage)

[nemo@Jolla harbour-cutespotify]$ ll
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 1 nemo nemo  32 Apr 15 09:22 CuteSpotify
lrwxrwxrwx 1 nemo nemo  67 Apr 15 09:25 Storage -> /media/sdcard/73f2d18a-2ce8-4811-b061-1e21a1dcf212/.Spotify/Storage
drwxr-xr-x 1 nemo nemo  34 Apr 15 09:22 Users
-rw-r--r-- 1 nemo nemo 504 Apr 23 20:53 offline.bnk
-rw-r--r-- 1 nemo nemo 219 Apr 23 20:57 settings
-rw-r--r-- 1 nemo nemo 760 Apr 23 20:53 user-cache.bnk
[nemo@Jolla harbour-cutespotify]$ pwd
/home/nemo/.local/share/harbour-cutespotify

It works for me without any issue and is also no problem after reboot or something like that and I do not need to bind it every time.

I did the same with Pictures, Videos and so on under home. On the card I created there folders hidden to avoid the double count of the tracker, in this case I do not see all pictures and videos twice. As long as Jolla does not change the mount point of the sdcard there is no issue and if they do, so just have to correct the link and it is working again (you also have to correct to script so...).