Check Disk and/or Disk Allocations on Android?

[Paul Boniol]

I just upgraded my wife's Android tablet to Ice Cream Sandwich (a Toshiba Thrive) successfully.  Now I'm getting errors about insufficient space to upgrade apps...

Storage tab says that apps are using 855 MB and there is 7.83 GB free.

Apps  says internal storage 2.7 GB used, 239 MB free.

So a) is there a way to e2fsck the internal storage?  and/or b) increase the storage allocated to apps?

Wife will not be pleased to have things not working...  Any advice greatly appreciated.

(Yes, I should have an SD card for it, but as it has almost 8 gig free, I didn't see an urgent need yet.)

Paul

[Chris Faulkner]

did you root it? 

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[Tilghman Lesher]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Paul Boniol <paul....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just upgraded my wife's Android tablet to Ice Cream Sandwich (a Toshiba
> Thrive) successfully. Now I'm getting errors about insufficient space to
> upgrade apps...
>
> Storage tab says that apps are using 855 MB and there is 7.83 GB free.
>
> Apps says internal storage 2.7 GB used, 239 MB free.
>
> So a) is there a way to e2fsck the internal storage? and/or b) increase the
> storage allocated to apps?

Typically the issue is that Android leaves the upgrade image in place
(i.e. doesn't delete it) after upgrading the internal firmware. So
once upgrading is finished, you might want to delete that bundle.
It's easy enough to do: just turn on USB debugging, plug the tablet
into a computer, mount the disk, and delete the upgrade bundle.
Remember to sync before unmounting and unplugging, so you don't
corrupt the disk. Once that's done, you should have plenty of space.

Another thing you might want to do is install an application like
Android Assistant, which gives an option to move applications over to
the SD card.

-Tilghman

[Paul Boniol]

No it has not been rooted.

[Paul Boniol]

Thanks!  I think this is what may be going on, this and previous upgrade bundles hanging around.  

I located the USB port, and got USB debugging turned on.  After a bit I was able to get it mounted.  

Now as for finding the upgrade bundle(s) to delete... I have looked for files dated today that are good size and have not found it yet.  So I'm not really sure how to locate this (and previous system updates).  Google searches have so far not shown how to identify them.  

I've found some large files, but I don't want to delete them without knowing what I'm doing here.  I don't want to create a brick by deleting the system files or something else important.  (E.g. Android/obb/ contains some big files, there are a couple of audio books [but they shouldn't be counted under app should they?], DCIM/.thumbnails/.thumbdata3 [ok, I can probably delete that without repercussions but again I wouldn't think it would be counted as applications], etc.)

Paul

[Paul Boniol]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Paul Boniol <paul....@gmail.com> wrote:

FYI Yesterday I did find on the Toshiba site that the amount of space for apps is set and cannot (?) be changed.

Paul