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Hi On Fri 17-Apr-2015 at 09:24:53AM -0400, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > Please suggest that instead of making the root fs writable, as the > latter will very quickly result in a filled root partition If you ignore this advice and run out of space you can do something like this: sudo -i apt-get clean mkdir /home/apt-archives chmod 700 /home/apt-archives/ rsync -av /var/cache/apt/archives/ /home/apt-archives/ cd /var/cache/apt/ rm -rf archives ln -s /home/apt-archives archives But I found I only needed to do this when using apt to upgrade the phone, which, as has been pointed out, does tend to break it... My humble suggestion to the wonderful Ubuntu Phone team would be to see if a app for installing and running a chroot can be put together, like the Android ones, (eg https://guardianproject.info/code/lildebi/) and then whenever people ask about making their phone images writable and installing things you can point them at this app... Telling long time users of GNU/Linux that they can't have the tools they use every day in a terminal on their phone isn't going to work -- this is why people like me want a Ubuntu phone in the first place... All the best Chris -- Webarchitects Co-operative http://webarchitects.coop/ +44 114 276 9709 @webarchcoop
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