Free working disk space? (iRiver H110)

[timberwolf]

I have an iRiver iHP-100 (H110) with a 10GB hard drive. A couple of days ago, I decided to give RB a try for the first time. As I only had I think 27MB free disk space on the iRiver, I decide to delete thhgttg audio book to make some more free disk space. After installing the RockBox daily build and fonts, the .rockbox/ directory is 18MB, and I've 213MB free disk space.

I haven't got a Database because whilst using iRiver's firmware, I was aware that it would increase the startup time, old habits stick, but I may try it on RockBox if there isn't the startup penalty? My listening habits are to listen to albums of music from folders, and I've just been using the Files menu to create a dynamic playlist.

How much free working disk space should I leave for RB? (And what happens if I don't have enough free disk space?)

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Jules

[Genre9mp3]

Building and using the Database on Rockbox won't make your player boot slower.

Also, as long as the .rockbox/ directory fits into your player's hard disk you don't have to worry about extra free space.

[Llorean]

Actually, that's not *quite* true. Both Dircache and Database require disk space to store themselves in, but of course they only increase in size when you add files really. So once you've initialized them, you need very little "working space"

[timberwolf]

Thanks.

It looks like the Database initializing of 2151 tracks took roughly a 1MB of disk space.
RB also seems to save the state of the dynamic playlist when I shut the player off, although unless I can create a playlist of entire player, that playlist should hopefully be quite small.

[bluebrother]

unless I can create a playlist of entire player, that playlist should hopefully be quite small.

You can do this. Use "create playlist" from the menu.