Re: Disk too full?
On Tuesday 05 April 2016 15:34:37 David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 06:36:39 (-0500), Charles Blair wrote:
> > I think I'm running out of space on my
> > laptop. The last time I got an "updates
> > available" message, I got a further warning,
> > during the update, that I was low on space.
> > The update did seem to complete, though.
> >
> > However, when I tried to use the calculator
> > program dc afterwards, the computer just sat
> > there.
> >
> > Below is the output from the df command.
> > Thanks very much for any help!
> >
> > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%
> > Mounted on rootfs 330215 193394 119772
> > 62% / udev 10240 0 10240 0%
> > /dev tmpfs 400736 708 400028 1%
> > /run /dev/disk/by-uuid/0923...36f4ab8e 330215 193394 119772 62% /
> > tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0%
> > /run/lock tmpfs 2457480 84 2457396
> > 1% /run/shm /dev/sda10 176581224 2269620 165341776
> > 2% /home /dev/sda9 376807 10272 347079
> > 3% /tmp /dev/sda6 8649992 6057732 2152864
> > 74% /usr /dev/sda7 2882592 1857652 878508
> > 68% /var
>
> Well, you've survived over a year so you aren't doing so badly. The
> main difference I can see is that your /var has increased from 19%
> to 68%. Have you run that duse command on it recently? Here's my
> wheezy /var but bear in mind that my /var/cache contains apt-cacher-ng
> which is holding all the .deb files for both wheezy and jessie (and
> backport and bits of sid).
>
> 9087M /var/
> 11M /var/backups/
> 8646M /var/cache/
> 376M /var/lib/
> 1M /var/local/
> 0M /var/lock/
> 53M /var/log/
> 1M /var/mail/
> 1M /var/opt/
> 1M /var/run/
> 1M /var/spool/
> 2M /var/tmp/
>
> So apart from that cache, I've got 447MB and you've got 1.8GB.
> How's your /var/tmp? I think you're responsible for any cleaning
> done there, unlike /tmp.
>
> The only other thing I can suggest at present is running df while
> those warnings are being generated.
May the OP have run out of inodes in / ?
Lisi
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