Mounting a heat sink
Installing the heat sink was a breeze, even without mounting holes available on the board. The strong adhesive of the thermal pads ensures highly effective heat transfer throughout the entire sink. Amazingly, the board consistently maintains impressively low temperatures, as low as 35°C in idle mode in an open environment, without being enclosed in a case.
Storage Space Details
Out of the original 64GB eMMC capacity, we have set aside 57GB for the operating system files. This means that we still have a generous 43GB of free space available for our everyday use.
This storage option offers ample space for storing files, documents, and media without feeling restricted by limited capacity. It provides a comfortable amount of space that meets the needs of most users. If you require more storage, consider purchasing a Micro SD Card with high write/read speeds, which can offer performance equivalent to that of the eMMC.
Checking the amount of free space that is left on a file system.
linaro@linaro-alip:~$ df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 15G 3.9G 11G 28% /
devtmpfs 4.2G 8.2k 4.2G 1% /dev
tmpfs 4.2G 39M 4.2G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 1.7G 1.6M 1.7G 1% /run
tmpfs 5.3M 4.1k 5.3M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 4.2G 5.0M 4.2G 1% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p8 46G 41k 44G 1% /userdata
/dev/mmcblk0p7 134M 13M 115M 10% /oem
tmpfs 831M 29k 831M 1% /run/user/0
tmpfs 831M 46k 831M 1% /run/user/1000Displaying all partitions.
inaro@linaro-alip:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/ram0: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 57.62 GiB, 61865984000 bytes, 120832000 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: E3340000-0000-4060-8000-307800006ACF
Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/mmcblk0p1 16384 24575 8192 4M unknown
/dev/mmcblk0p2 24576 32767 8192 4M unknown
/dev/mmcblk0p3 32768 163839 131072 64M unknown
/dev/mmcblk0p4 163840 425983 262144 128M unknown
/dev/mmcblk0p5 425984 491519 65536 32M unknown
/dev/mmcblk0p6 491520 29851647 29360128 14G unknown
/dev/mmcblk0p7 29851648 30113791 262144 128M unknown
/dev/mmcblk0p8 30113792 120831935 90718144 43.3G unknownThere is still approximately 7GB of available memory left out of the original 8GB allocated to RAM.
