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Re: Fwd: Upgrade Problem



On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 08:44:27AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 04 January 2019 08:15:11 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Jan 03, 2019 at 09:22:49PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > In this case, I hate to sound like
> > > an ass, but perhaps a re-install is in the future, doing the
> > > reinstall to a new drive [...]
> >
> > Come on, people.  Show some sense.  (And yes, this includes the OP.)
> >
> > He simply has a full root file system.  He has shown the df output at
> > least twice now.
> >
> > (A full root file system clearly and plainly shown by df despite the
> > OP claiming he is certain he's not out of space, no less.)
> 
> I don't have an argument against any of that Greg, but lets clarify one 
> thing here and now for the OP. Several responders keep using the "/root" 
> to describe what you clearly intend to be interpreted as the root of the 
> filesystem, AKA "/" when in 99.99% of the installs /root is the 
> sysadmin's home DIRECTORY, and not the root of the filesystem.

No, but /root is customarily in the root file system (mounted on /), and
it happens some times that there are things forgotten in there (e.g.
from manually installed packages, admin sessions squirreling away backups
of things, etc). Not a recommended pattern, but it happens.

I did interpret the proposals to look into /root in this vein.

Cheers
-- t

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