Insufficient space: what to do?

[o-alquimista]

When attempting to make a backup, I get a notification from Seedvault, warning that the target storage device is almost full. Shouldn't Seedvault be automatically deleting old backups to make room for more? I have no idea how to manually free space (other than deleting everything), if that's what's needed.

The target device is a 10 GB FAT32 partition on a flash stick. I have about five backup snapshots stored in it, and there's no room for more. What can I do?

Phone info

• CalyxOS 6.10.20 (Android 15)
• Seedvault 15-5.6

[grote]

How much free space to you have on this drive? Is it impossible to just use a bigger partition? Flash drives with 32 GB are cheap these days.

Auto-deletion above what it normally deletes isn't implemented and a bit tricky as well. We'd need to warn you anyway, but sometimes continue to back up and sometimes not, depending on how much space we can free. It may be better to allow the user to configure how many snapshots to retain.

[o-alquimista]

I had about one gigabyte free.

For now I just made a backup of the flash stick and deleted all its contents to free space and start from scratch. I'll look for a larger stick, then. Thanks.