phranker’s Think Tank

So everyone knows that there is limited space for Apps on a jailbroke iPhone, but there are a few solutions. The first, and probably the easiest, is to install BossTools via Installer. That particular app was written to perform this specific task of moving certain directories (Fonts & Ringtones) to the media partition (where your music is stored). However, most don’t even know what it did, except that they know they have more room for apps.

Below is a simple shell script that will perform the same steps as BossTools, but via SSH on the command line so that you have the freedom to organize or structure your filesystem to your own liking.

This script will move the System Fonts and Ringtones to the media partition (/private/var) – thus freeing up more than 100MB for more & bigger apps. You can just cut/paste each line – one by one – to preform the task.

mkdir /private/var/Fonts_PHRANKER
mkdir /private/var/Ringtones_PHRANKER
cp -Rp /Library/Ringtones/* /private/var/Ringtones_PHRANKER
cp -Rp /System/Library/Fonts/* /private/var/Fonts_PHRANKER
rm -r /Library/Ringtones
ln -s /private/var/Ringtones_PHRANKER /Library/Ringtones
rm -r /System/Library/Fonts
ln -s /private/var/Fonts_PHRANKER /System/Library/Fonts

Just like always, I hope this helps some of ya. At least it should help some of you understand what is going on behind the scenes, such as in BossTools. Of course, you could do the same with the Applications directory, but, moving your Apps to the media partition is not a good idea, since an update will erase the media partition, erasing all your apps as well.