Re: dpkg "no space left on device" errors (lots of room left)

[Peter Palfrader <weasel@debian.org>]

On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, John Bleichert wrote:

> >Try a df -i You may have run out of inodes
> 
> Iain: Bingo - I was down to a single-digit number of inodes on / ...
> 
> The box became unusable and had to be reset. Upon booting the OS
> "cleaned up temporary files" and now I'm back to an IUse% of 4%
> (which sounds about right, I don't store any non-OS data on / ).

Maybe you want to make your /tmp a tmpfs?  Edit /etc/default/tmpfs and
set RAMTMP to yes, then reboot.

Cheers,
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