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Re: Same phone image different os size

 


On 2016-05-24 03:30 AM, Sam Bull wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-05-24 at 12:12 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>> On Mo, 2016-05-23 at 13:55 -0700, Joseph Liau wrote:
>>> 16GB nexus 'ubuntu' part is 5GB while the 'ubuntu' part on the 8gb
>>> nexus is 
>>> 7gb.
>>>
>>> I wonder why the difference. Any insights?
>>>
>> ubuntu does not touch the factory partitioning, especially on the
>> nexus
>> devices where the rootfs is in a loop mounted image (vs a real
>> partition on the retail devices)
> I don't think he's referring to partitioning, just space used as shown
> in the system settings app. My first guess is another logrotate issue,
> so perhaps check if the syslog is ridiculously big on the latter
> device?
Yes that is what I was wondering. After removing the syslog however, it
doesn't seem to have affected the "ubuntu" size in the 8GB Nexus 4. It
did however, change something on the 16GB Nexus 4.
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