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

[John Bleichert <syborg@earthlink.net>]

On 10/22/2014 07:10 PM, Michael Biebl wrote:
> The faulty package is system-config-printer which linterally creates
> millions of files in /tmp [1].
>
> As as side-effect, you'll see that rebooting your system can take ages,
> when /tmp is being cleaned up [2] and you likely see output like this:
>
> "a start job is running for Create Volatile files and directories (xx
> minutes / no limit)"
>
> Ext4 is highly inefficient apparently when dealing with huge amount of
> files in on directory
>
>
>
>
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=764253
> [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=766092#62

Michael,

Thanks - that is exactly what I am seeing although it only takes ~15 
minutes to clean /tmp on reboot. I will watch for an update and be 
careful while printing!

John

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