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

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Fri Feb 28 14:00:41 EST 2014


Bwahaha!!!  +1
On Feb 28, 2014 9:16 AM, "Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> 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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