Claiming back space from NAND?

Artem Bityutskiy dedekind1 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 05:18:47 EDT 2011


On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 17:39 +0200, Gilles wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 	After booting up a new kernel with the root filesystem on the second
> partition in the NAND, I notice that the 248MiB partition is down to
> only 225MiB.
> 
> I understand that Ubifs uses some space for journaling, but does it
> really need that much space? Is it possible to reclaim some space?

First of all, start with this:
http://www.linux-mtd.infradead.org/faq/ubifs.html#L_df_report

Also, yes, there is room for optimization but it requires some work.

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy




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