@ereus This is not supported, so it's best not to generally advise people to do this. The rootfs is readonly and limited in space for a reason. In almost all cases, simply doing apt update will result in out of space errors. It is not this simple, not supported, and not advisable.

@TotalSonic said in New Launcher, edge channel.:

I think the ultimate plan (or at least one possible one) is to allow people to place widgets and launchers on the wallpaper background as if it was a "home" (same as if it was a non-vanilla-Gnome-3 desktop) - but that this will take time to code and the need to streamline the code and image size to what can be easily maintained makes the first step of getting rid of Scopes one that will have to happen in order to make any forward progress from there.

Best regards,
Steve Berson

It has been an idea that a few people have mentioned. There is currently no plan to do it (nor do I think should there be, as it's not a convergent feature).

@mystic-x A new version of dekko that is compatible with Qt 5.12 is not yet available in the open store. If you need to use dekko, you should switch to stable channel for now.

The devel channel has a new version of Qt and there are still a few issues we're working through.

@errorcodevortex No, I can't help you if you can't even bother to read the comments in the very thread you're replying to. Also, you continue to be rude, and declaring that somehow things worked in some magical way, in which they very certainly never did work.

Perhaps you're confusing Ubuntu Touch with Plasma Mobile or something, but Ubuntu on phones has never worked in the way you described, and especially not so on the OnePlus 1 which was never supported by Canonical either.

From what I can tell, Ubuntu Touch is not what you want, never was, and you weren't running it before. Perhaps you should look into something more like postmarketOS, which is much more like a traditional PC Linux distro.

@errorcodevortex said in Set partition sizes when flashing:

Apt-get upgrade was allowed out the box never had to remount.

This is simply just not true. Please stop saying this.

@errorcodevortex said in Set partition sizes when flashing:

I shouldn't be limited to 6gb on my 64gb device

You aren't. You are simply expecting something that has never been true, to be true.

@errorcodevortex said in Set partition sizes when flashing:

Can anyone just help me "shoot myself in the foot"?

Instructions for doing so have been clearly presented before in the thread. However, you keep demanding that this be some officially supported thing, rather than shooting yourself in the foot. It's not going to be. Go shoot yourself in your foot and be done with it.

@errorcodevortex said in Set partition sizes when flashing:

All I want is my space back I used to have,

I have no idea what you're talking about, but resizing the rootfs has never been a supported feature of Ubuntu Touch. You're making an assumption based on a false memory, as far as I can tell. The rootfs has always been roughly 2GB loopback mount. MultiROM was also never officially supported. It's still possible to use it, but it is not officially supported, and you need a patched version to point at the correct image server.

Installing anything from apt in rootfs was never really supported either. Yes, it's somewhat possible with some hacking, but creating the .writable_image file explicitly disables system updates, leaving you with an unsupported system. You are literally on your own at that point. Also, due to how some files are bind mounted, to enable readonly rootfs, simply running apt-get upgrade will break at some point.

The OS is built around security and privacy. Therefore, yes, certain things which subvert those principles are not actually supported methods of using the system, even if you can do it with some hacking. Just like how rooting Android is not supported by Google. But I don't see you having a rant at them for it.

@simbion said in Set partition sizes when flashing:

It would be nice if did it in UBports when you install to select how much you need to under system.

Installing packages with apt and resizing the rootfs is not supported. Nobody needs it, though you might want it.