As I understand it iphone's user (1.1.2 & 1.1.3) is now "mobile" rather "root"

using scp it appears that the file structure in /private/var/root is duplicated in /private/var/mobile although the files contained in the two structures are not the same.

The dates on those in /private/var/root are older than those in /private/var/mobile - no suprise !! It stands to reason that since upgrading no files have been added or updated on /private/var/root.

On my iPhone the /private/var/root structure contains nearly 1Gig's worth of files.

Anyone have a view as to whether they can be deleted ? i.e. everything below/private/var/root ??

Thanks

no one got a view ???

My "other" files were 1017.7mb

I've deleted
/var/root/media/touchfree - whole directory
appsnap.log - file
/var/root/media/itunes_control/music - every media file in the sub directoies - left teh directory structure in place
/var/root/media/itunes_control/ringtones - all files
/var/root/media/photos/thumbs - all files
/var/root/library/installer - whole directory
/var/root/library/youtube - cache file

closed and restarted itunes "other" now = 200mb

HEALTH WARNING
1. You can see none of our resident experts have comented whether this is a good idea or not and I'm no expert.
2. I've not done any extensive tests to make sure everything is functioning OK - it seems to be OK
3. Don't do any of this if you are not confident or are not prepared risk bricking your iphone - I offer no warranties

Originally Posted by RotorRocky

1. You can see none of our resident experts have comented whether this is a good idea or not and I'm no expert.

No expert either, but I had a similar issue - after upgrading to 1.1.3 I had 4.5GB of 'other' - all my previously uploaded music, photos, etc

I'm inclined to think the same however - everything goes under the 'mobile' user now so I can imagine it causing any problems. I've had no issues so far and this was approx. 1 week ago.

Thanks Trotty

Did you (like me) just delete media files or did you go further and delete more of the root structure ?

do you have upgraded 1.1.3 right?
cause from my 1.1.3 ootb i have just 27,507kb in the /var/root directory

Originally upgraded (was 1.1.2 OTB with gunlock) to 1.1.3 and had this problem. After spending more time than I should have trying to delete more bits here and there I bit the bullet and did a full restore to 1.1.3 then unlocked using ziphone 2.2 - been fine since.

many apps still use the root folder, most of them need workarrounds to work, but those still need the root folder, so i dont think deleting it is a good idea

i dont know about space used, since i restored to 1.1.3

I think Coccchiararo is right, that's why I only deleted media files. I still have 200mb of "Other" files which I guess I could largely get rid of by deleting more in /var/root, but I don't think that's worth taking the risk.