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freeing space /system/app (root)

fdisk

Newbie
Aug 20, 2010
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hello
my milestone 2.1 was running out of internal memory space, so I decided to remove some useless files from /system/app/ (Dock.apk, Calculator.apk, etc...)
but it still shows the same usage!

are my .apk in another partition with different quota?

if so, maybe I could move some of my custom apps to /system/app/ so it uses this partition space and not "user" space?

also, I tried to remove Maps.apk (I'd reinstall it as a normal app), but it still shows 9 MBs used... the tutorial I followed recommended the command "pm uninstall", but i get "Failure"

thanks
 

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