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Re: Disk too full?



On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 18:00:30 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote:
> 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!

It's mean, though, isn't it. It takes away the space% when it
adds the inode%.

Cheers,
David.


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