Re: no space left on device
Try du --human *.log in /var/log/ and you'll get a report on space used.
Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
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On Wed, 30 Nov 2022, K0LNY_Glenn wrote:
> Well there's a lot of log files there, is it okay to just delete them all?
> I don't know to see how much space they are taking up.
> Glenn
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdashiel@panix.com>
> To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; "Jeffery Mewtamer"
> <mewtamer@gmail.com>; <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 5:41 PM
> Subject: 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.
>
>
>
> Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in
> defense of liberty:
> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>
> .
>
> 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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