Perform OS upgrade with unsufficient free space

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Hi,

I've got a question... Is there a way to perform an update on MC3300 scanners when there is unsufficient free space? 

There is 2.1GB space left and our update is around 1,45GB big. But still we've got the error that there is unsufficient free space.

Is there a way to perform updates without clearing the SDcard?
Thanks in advance.

Available storage on the device. (sdcard)

Package Size

a year ago
SOTI MobiControl
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Robert
a year ago

Hi,
Try to deliver the zip file by an File Sync rule instead of a package and then apply it in an post-install script.
Don´t know how your package is built but if zip file is extracted from it takes more space on device for storing the .pcg file plus the zip file.

And general for files in this size i would recommend File Sync instead of packages for better performance and not affect the MC database unnecessarily.

Solution
AS

Hi Thanks all for the reply. We have now figured a bit out. If send by FTP or Filesync it will not require dubble the amount of space also to unpack the package.

MD
Matt Dermody Diamond Contributor
a year ago

Yup! Completely agree with this approach. It's not the unzipping of the file that is the issue its the problem that PCG based installing can require 2X the storage since the file is first downloaded to a temporary storage directory before being copied into its destination. File Sync rules on the other hand sync straight to the destination directory and so they only need as much space as the file size itself.

RC
Raymond Chan Diamond Contributor
a year ago

I'm not 100% sure, but I doubt if there is any solution other than freeing up space.

Hi, please be aware that the 1,45 GB size is a zip file, so unpacked the size will increase and then maybe exceeds the limit when unpacked during update process and may also need some additional free space to do operations during the update.

So, i agree to Raymond, there's a need to free up space on the sdcard.