If it really "only" needs UI work, I am tempted to tackle this, but I never got crossbuilder running to build system settings. And I need some time to check the code.

Lets do it like you suggested, whoever starts working on this shares the news.

Let me know if you (or someone else) start working on this, so that we won't double the work if I'll work on this too, and I'll do the same. Thanks

You said you already had it working on your phone to some extend.
Is the code available somewhere online so someone else could pick this up?
Maybe with a quick guide what needs doing to get this finished?

But it would be a real waste of the great work you already did.

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Is there any ETA when the other part with clearing apps cache, settings and data is going to be available?

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I can confirm it landed in todays devel. My opinion: neat! Looks great. Well done @mymike .

I will just up it with link to one of your post : https://forums.ubports.com/post/57940

I dont think people will be confused by that, you could also call it "Reserved Android partitions" maybe. BUt make clear how much space the actual installation takes up.

• First it should read "Used by Ubuntu Touch"

Oh yeah, of course! How did we missed that one :grinning_face_with_sweat: ?

• "Reserved space" new category: Total Space - size of userdata partition, lets say 27GB remain

I think then people will start asking what is it reserved for... To be honest I don't like this naming that much but if you think it suits the category I'll go for it. Maybe I can put a little icon that opens a little popup that explains the partition thing

• "Used by Ubuntu Touch" the file /data/ubuntu.img if it exists plus the size of the /data/cache folder - lets say its 3.4GB

I'll need to sort out how to do

Rest remains the same I think. On some devices ubuntu.img will not be there because their system partition is large enough to host that file. But, unfortunately, on some devices system partition is lets say only 2.5GB, too small, and it cannot be used. That space is kinda wasted then.

How this should be handled then?

Thank you for your inputs on this Flo

I love that improvement. Just to make sure we are also not only making a better UI but to also get a few numbers right here that probably were wrong since ever, and where people always complain they dont understand the huge amount of "used by Ubuntu" files:

• First it should read "Used by Ubuntu Touch"

Then, this is a bit complicated category:

• Some space is just wasted by the partition layout
• Some space is unused, even if it would be designated for the system, but its too small of a partition
• Then you have the real system files
• Some devices need to repurpose a part of data for their cache, since otherwise they cannot update properly.

So the breakdown for any device could be calculated as follows:

• Total space: 32GB
• "Reserved space" new category: Total Space - size of userdata partition, lets say 27GB remain
• "Used by Ubuntu Touch" the file /data/ubuntu.img if it exists plus the size of the /data/cache folder - lets say its 3.4GB
• In this case, the user has still 23.6GB space to be allocated with Apps and data.

Rest remains the same I think. On some devices ubuntu.img will not be there because their system partition is large enough to host that file. But, unfortunately, on some devices system partition is lets say only 2.5GB, too small, and it cannot be used. That space is kinda wasted then.