Re: apt cache full, mandb update failed

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

* Bonno Bloksma <b.bloksma@tio.nl> [2016-04-20 06:52 +0000]:

> Hi,
> 
[...]
> 
> My /var partition had filled up, it seems out of the 3GB there was about 2.5GB in /var/cache/apt/archives.
> The solution was simple, just an apt-get autoclean, I now have 2.2GB free on my /var partition. ;-)
> 
> But..... What wanted apt write to that mandb and was that important? 
>   /usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/8774: No space left on device
> Was that that man page for ssh or something like that?
> 
> After cleaning up I did another apt-get upgrade but it reported nothing to do.
> So if it failed to update some files why did it complete anyhow?

Because /var/cache/man/ resides on the apt-get autocleaned /var
partition?

Sigh
Elimar
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