Re: Upgrade Problem
Hi.
On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 10:42:57AM +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 08:57:18 +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 02:47:52AM +0000, Matthew Crews wrote:
> > > My guess? /home is on the same partition as /, which is a common setup
> > > for most end users. Running lsblk is one way to tell if this is the case.
> >
> > >From one of Stephen's earlier emails:
> >
> > root@AbNormal:/home/comp# df -hl
> > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
> > tmpfs 789M 18M 772M 3% /run
> > /dev/sda1 23G 23G 0 100% /
> > tmpfs 3.9G 18M 3.9G 1% /dev/shm
> > tmpfs 5.0M 8.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
> > tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> > /dev/sda7 1.9G 6.5M 1.7G 1% /tmp
> > /dev/sda5 9.2G 6.0G 2.8G 69% /var
> > /dev/sda8 416G 103G 292G 27% /home
> > /dev/sdc1 20G 301M 19G 2% /sdc1
> > /dev/sdc2 439G 169G 270G 39% /sdc2
> > /dev/sdb1 1.8T 288G 1.5T 17% /sdb1
> > tmpfs 789M 4.0K 789M 1% /run/user/110
> > tmpfs 789M 28K 789M 1% /run/user/1000
> >
> > i.e. /home is already on a separate partition.
> >
> > Several people have now suggested saving space in a bits of the
> > filesystem that Stephen has on dedicated partitions, so this is not
> > helpful.
> >
> > This partitioning scheme seems really odd and unwieldy. So much
> > wasted space on partitions that will never need anything like what
> > they have been assigned. This seems like a great example of how not
> > to partition a system - anyone thinking of using this many
> > partitions really should consider LVM in future.
> >
> > Anyway, Stephen, you need to focus on finding useless things in / and
> > either removing them or moving them elsewhere. If it's just data
> > then it looks like somewhere under /home would be a good choice as
> > it has 292G available.
> >
> > Ask before deleting anything you don't fully understand.
>
> 1. First assess what the space on / is allocated to.
>
> du -hs /lib/
> du -hs /etc/
> du -hs /usr/
> du -hs /usr/bin/
> du -hs /usr/local/
du -xh / | sort -h
Why bother typing several commands if you can type one?
Reco
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