Re: no space left on device
dpkg.log has all of the packages installed and date stamps for when those
got installed. kern.log is a log of kernel activity.
The kern.log may have warnings and errors and fatals in it that may be
helpful to know.
That can be searched with grep -i fatal kern.log grep -i error kern.log
and grep -i warn kern.log.
One thing about Linux if you don't already know it is that Linux is a
tough operating system. If something doesn't work and Linux can bypass it
and still come up running that's what Linux does.
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:
> The first one listed is
> dpkg.log
> The next one is
> kern.log
>
> ----- 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 6:30 PM
> Subject: 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)
>
> .
>
> 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > 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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