Re: no space left on device
Are logs being rotated timely and correctly? If not, you likely have lots
of ancient logs in /var/log/. How to check and set up good log rotation I
don't know though.
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2022, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
> Thanks Samuel and Jeffrey,
> I deleted everything in /tmp with
> sudo rm -R *.*
> and it removed everything except a file or folder called pulse-something
> The something was letters and numbers.
> I got rid of that with
> rm -R puls*
> So I rebooted, and I still get the same error.
> I'm wondering about how to migrate everything to an SD card and boot to that
> instead, I have some 32 GB sd cards around, and this computer can boot to
> that instead of the internal 4GB drive.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jeffery Mewtamer" <mewtamer@gmail.com>
> To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>;
> <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 4:26 PM
> Subject: Re: no space left on device
>
>
> Yeah, doing a sudo rm -Rf /tmp/* should be safe.
>
> My system drive is 320 GB, but before I got in the routine of
> regularly clearing out /tmp/ I'd get such errors constantly once /tmp/
> accumulated 2GB of temp files.
>
> Worst I've noticed is that Firefox and/or Orca are a little more prone
> to crashing after I run my clean.sh script, and even then, I can't be
> sure its related to clearing /tmp/ and not something else in the
> script and even then, my tabs almost always restore properly, so
> usually, the most I lose is the minute or so it takes tty1 to drop
> down to the console following a crash and to relaunch my stripped down
> x-server.
>
>
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