[knickboy87]

I was wondering how to increase the root partition size on a pwned 2.0 iphone...it's set at 500 MB, but how could i bump that up to 1 GB...it was easy with BossTool, but that obviously does not (yet) exist.
I appreciate any help, thanks.

[rusty778]

Why would you ever need 1Gb? The average app is maybe 1 mb. Are youg going to be installing a thousandish apps in the future?

Anywayysss on pwnage if you go to advanced you can choose how large you want the system partition to be.

[BlackWolf]

On 2.0 pwned you don't even NEED that much space because /Applications/ is automatically redirected to a location outside the system partition.

[SundayDuffer]

but if you really want to bump it up, just rebuild your ipsw custom file and do a restore with it.

[Delphiki]

Originally Posted by BlackWolf

On 2.0 pwned you don't even NEED that much space because /Applications/ is automatically redirected to a location outside the system partition.

how can i on only have 50mb free on my system partition then?

i only upgraded to 2.0 yesterday (Pwnage)

made a clean restore,.but theres only 50mb free

what is using up the 450 mb?

[kline1]

same here ....i have 46mb left......ppl are saying u dont need to increase it since cydia moves things around ..< watever that means..........

[BlackWolf]

well, this is pretty simple: the firmware takes up that space.
The System folder itself is over 350MB in size, the usr folder is 55MB, and so on.

Admittingly, some applications write some stuff on the system partition (like lighthttpd or command line utilities), but I guess you'll never exceed the remaining 50MB with those.

Applications are always redirected to the Media partition. /Applications/ (where the Cydia apps go) is a symlink (in other words, redirects to) /private/var/stash/Applications/ (and everything in /private/var/ is the media partition) and the AppStore apps are installed into /private/var/mobile/Applications/

regards

[knickboy87]

Found this:

Download all the apps in the folder /Applications to your desktop. Delete /Applications. Create the folder /var/mobile/Applications2 (you may call it Apps or Programs or whatever you like) and copy all your applications into that folder.
Now open terminal, enter “ssh root@IPHONES_IP_ADDRESS”, if you are prompted to accept / authorize the key enter “yes” (it might be that you don’t have to do that). Enter the password for the iPhone, “alpine”, as you’ll know.
Now, the only thing left to do is to create the symlink: “ln -s /var/mobile/Applications2/ /Applications”. You may copy “endless” applications into “/Applications” now, because it’s now a symlink pointing to the 8GB partition of the iPhone.

[BlackWolf]

Originally Posted by knickboy87

Found this:

Download all the apps in the folder /Applications to your desktop. Delete /Applications. Create the folder /var/mobile/Applications2 (you may call it Apps or Programs or whatever you like) and copy all your applications into that folder.
Now open terminal, enter “ssh root@IPHONES_IP_ADDRESS”, if you are prompted to accept / authorize the key enter “yes” (it might be that you don’t have to do that). Enter the password for the iPhone, “alpine”, as you’ll know.
Now, the only thing left to do is to create the symlink: “ln -s /var/mobile/Applications2/ /Applications”. You may copy “endless” applications into “/Applications” now, because it’s now a symlink pointing to the 8GB partition of the iPhone.

once again: you do NOT need to do this on 2.0 because it is ALREADY DONE. I don't know if PwnageTool does it or apple, but a pwned 2.0 already has that done! I know because I just checked ;-)

[knickboy87]

If you want to SSH any programs (over 50 MB, lets say) onto the phone, you need to do that, otherwise you may run out of space, no?

[BlackWolf]

Originally Posted by knickboy87

If you want to SSH any programs (over 50 MB, lets say) onto the phone, you need to do that, otherwise you may run out of space, no?

Nope. Like I said above: /Applications/ already links to /private/var/something/ and /private/var is the 7/15GB partition, not the 500MB one. so you do not need to do that.

[rhydewithdis]

for the Windows users out there, has anyone figured out how to do this? The option for moving the the Applications folder to another partition in Winpwn does not seem to exist.

I did find this:

http://www.haklabs.com/appstore/comm...=1#Comment_551
That doesnt work
I alredy found a way. Download putty.exe
Install it
Log into your iphone

Type this 3 commands
/bin/cp -R -p /Applications /private/var/stash/Applications.QD0zy1/
/bin/rm -rf /Applications
/bin/ln -s /private/var/stash/Applications.QD0zy1/ /Applications

but it did not seem to work for me...

Found the answer here:

http://www.modmyi.com/forums/pwnage/...er-winpwn.html

mkdir /private/var/Applications
cp -Rp /Applications/* /private/var/Applications
mv /Applications /Applications.backup
ln -s /private/var/Applications/ /Applications
reboot

[nicktodorov]

Originally Posted by BlackWolf

Nope. Like I said above: /Applications/ already links to /private/var/something/ and /private/var is the 7/15GB partition, not the 500MB one. so you do not need to do that.

Then why BossPrefs says I have only 120K of 500M on / ?

Yesterday it was even 0 and Cydia gave me error out of free space or sth

[BlackWolf]

@rhydewithdis: there is no option for that in PwnageTool either and it still happened. but maybe winPwn doesn't do it, don't know

@nicktodorov: like I said, because the firmware takes up that much space. normally you should have about 50MB of free space, maybe you installed some stuff that needed to be on the system partition? don't know.

edit: BossTools was just released for 2.0 - for those of you who need to free space. mine, btw, says "ringtones already moved" and "applications already moved" ;-)

[knickboy87]

Ya, I saw BossTools came out, and that helped. But it only moved fonts. Whatever, i can deal with 176 MB free out of 500