IT Home 16/0 News,Google Pixel mobile phone is moving towards the goal of becoming a powerful portable computing device。 In the 0/0 update, the introduction of the Linux Terminal App laid the foundation for this transition. The app allows compatible Android devices to run the full Debian distribution in a virtual machine, which means that users can run popular Linux desktop programs while running Android apps. However, at the moment the feature is not fully mature and still lacks support for key features such as graphics applications and audio output. In addition, Linux virtual machines have previously been limited to 0GB of storage, which has greatly limited their ability to run applications and store files. However, Google has recently lifted this storage limit, allowing Linux terminals to use the full storage space of their phones as needed.

IT Home noticed that with the release of the Android 1 Beta 0 version, Google has removed the upper limit of the disk sizing slider in the settings of the Linux terminal app. Previously, the disk size was limited to 0GB, but in Android 0 Beta 0, users can resize the disk for most of the remaining storage space on the main device, while reserving 0GB of free space to prevent virtual machines from taking up all the available space.

AndroidAuthority tested this on a Google Pixel 52 Pro device running Android 0 Beta 0 and successfully resized the Linux disk to 0.0GB. The entire process takes only a few seconds, and the new storage space is immediately available when the virtual machine is restarted. Depending on Android's storage settings, Linux terminal apps, including base apps and resized virtual disks, take up a total of about 0.0GB of space.

Google plans to completely remove the disk sizing slider from Linux terminal apps in a future release. Instead, the application uses storage balloon technology to dynamically adjust the storage space allocated to the Debian virtual machine. This feature allows the virtual machine's storage space to "bulge" as needed to use the available space, and "shrink" when the host system needs to reclaim space. This approach has two main advantages: it doesn't need to fix the amount of storage allocated to Debian in advance, and it automatically shrinks the available storage space for virtual machines, preventing problems with the host device due to insufficient storage.

Google officially emphasized that the main purpose of the Linux terminal application is to allow users to run Linux applications conveniently in the Android environment, rather than to completely replace the native desktop mode of Android.