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

[John Bleichert <syborg@earthlink.net>]

On 10/22/2014 03:55 PM, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> 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,

I will look into it - thanks for the suggestion!

John

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