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Re:Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA by grishka on Saturday June 21, 2025 @02:48AM (#44335166)
The system partition is made some fixed size, the same way disk partitioning works on PCs, and never resized, because resizing file systems is still a non-trivial task. It often has some free space too to accommodate future system updates.

On my 128 GB Pixel 9 Pro, /data is 109 GB. The rest is /system (although `df -h` doesn't show it explicitly, no idea what's up with that) and various other system-related partitions.

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Re:Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA by bracketfocus on Saturday June 21, 2025 @10:55AM (#44338069)
Yes, but if the phone shipped with less bloatware on the system partition, then maybe that partition would be made smaller initially.

Meaning the user would have access to more of the phone’s advertised storage.

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Re:Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA by Henchman21 on Saturday June 21, 2025 @04:38PM (#44340573)
You have succeeded in splitting hairs down to the atomic level. Fissionable HN comments!!
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Re:Samsung Embeds IronSource Spyware App on Phones Across WANA by charcircuit on Saturday June 21, 2025 @09:13PM (#44342187)
Or perhaps there would be less incentive for the OEM optimize for disk space and it ends up taking the same amount of space.
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