Re: Disk too full?

[Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>]

On Tuesday 05 April 2016 17:46:24 David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 16:46:36 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote:
> > 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.
>
> [...]
>
> > > 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 /  ?
>
> It's always possible, though the error message (wherever that's coming
> from) could be better. Posting the result of
>
> df -i
>
> would be far more use than df -h (and doesn't require root access).

Or 
df -ih 
and have the best of both worlds!

Lisi