[ale] [slightly OT] Android Tablet mysteriously out of space

[Neal Rhodes]

Well let's try to steer the discussion out of the political woods and
back to linux. 

One of these days I will spend some quality time to understand Android
storage organization.  

./storage/emulated/legacy/.wsj-external-data-cache-USA was in fact the
culprit - I removed that and now have 11.85GB free.  

So NOW I can install the spiffy Disk & Storage Analyzer, and it is happy
to report usage of Apps.  BUT, it sees all the apps installed inside

./storage/emulated/0

Ergo, WSJ's app is merrily storing away newspapers for the last year in
a location that isn't visible to the normal monitoring apps, and is NOT
cleaned up when you clear the cache, and is NOT removed when you
uninstall the App. 

So, is there any rhyme or reason to these various folder choices? 

On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 14:14 +0000, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> Rupert Murdoch owns WSJ these days and his folks in the UK were all
> over (other news sources) for hacking mobile phones a year or so ago.
> Maybe they institutionalized this ability in their WSJ app because the
> think the NSA shouldn’t have all the fun?
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
> Neal Rhodes
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 9:11 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: Re: [ale] [slightly OT] Android Tablet mysteriously out of
> space
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> Going old-school, I started terminal emulator, did a du, and it has
> been stuck for about 40 minutes at...
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> 615712 ./storage/emulated/legacy/.wsj-external-data-cache-USA/20991230
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> Which I surmise means that the one AFTER this is a whopper.   Suggests
> the Wall St Journal app may be the culprit.   Which would be doubly
> annoying, since I uninstalled that last night. 
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> On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 07:49 -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:
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> I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet running all stock OS.   Not a
> whole lot installed.  
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> It recently has gotten slower and slower at getting email and the Wall
> Street Journal. 
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> A couple of days ago it threw up an alert about not enough space.   
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> Sure enough, only 20mb left. 
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> Funny thing is, there is no way the applications shown add up to
> 12gb. 
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> So I stuffed in a 2gb SD card, moved some things to SD, cleared cache,
> rebooted, etc.  Removed some apps I can live without. 
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> Still only 480mb free.    
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> So, I figure let's install one of those apps that gives a graphical DF
> and figure out where all the space has gone.   I pick the first one,
> which is 471KB, and when I install, it downloads, but when says "not
> enough space to install". 
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> I'm kinda stuck here.   Any thoughts before I get the extra strong
> reading glasses and fire up the terminal emulator and start manually
> doing df to figure out what happened? 
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> Neal Rhodes
> MNOP Ltd
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