Thread: [Sandbox] App Manager disallows installs that fill partition
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attila77 is offline attila77
2009-10-29 , 10:04
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#4
Originally Posted by lardman View Post
It's a bit harder than that as the root partition is a compressed filesystem, so the size reported by the debian packaging tools may not correspond to the size it actually uses.
Another consideration is that the package itself has no idea how many filesystems will it's contents be spread over. Some of it might go to root, some to opt, some to Mydocs, some even to the external MMC, etc.