Thread: Filling a Kindle Scribe does not prevent full updates from downloading?
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Old 01-06-2026, 01:10 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by Greyriver View Post
The only explanation I can come up with is that the scribe now has a ram disk or some other storage which is handled separately.
Kindles have had "a ram disk" since day 1 (/dev/shm) but even a 2022 Scribe doesn't have enough ram to hold a firmware update file after updates started flashing the entire OS (many years now). They also have always had partitions that are not visible from the GUI. It is the user visible storage that is "handled separately" in that it used to be exported as a partition from the FAT family. Now with the most recent firmwares on newer models it is only accesible via MTP. On kindles with 4GB or less EMMC none of those partitions are large enough to hold a firmware update file.

I don't know what 8 GB and 16 GB models have, but a 32 GB Oasis 2 from around 2017 running 5.9.2 has a 975 MB /var/local with 897 MB free. A 2022 Scribe is very close to the same. 900 MB might be fine for some and maybe mmost updates and tight for others. I haven't done a survey of update file sizes. Now I know why EMMC size - available space to user is such a large number.

It would be interesting to see how large /var/local is on recent firmwares.I hope that someone looks and reports.
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