Re: no space left on device
Next, try this:
ls -1S /var/log/*.log.
The first log name you read will be the largest log in that directory and
the logs get progressively smaller.
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:
> Yeah, that tells me 170 M.
> So I deleting everything would help.
> Is it safe to do that?
>
> ----- 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 6:02 PM
> Subject: Re: no space left on device
>
>
> Try du --human *.log in /var/log/ and you'll get a report on space used.
>
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>
> 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:
>
> > 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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