[vox-tech] I'm out of space on /

[Jay Strauss]

Thanks Rick, unfortunately that's not the prob.  I'm not out of space on 
var (since var is a different filesystem)

hydrogen:/# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             133M  107M   19M  86% /
tmpfs                 189M  4.0K  189M   1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda8              27G  1.4G   24G   6% /home
/dev/hda7             361M  8.1M  334M   3% /tmp
/dev/hda5             4.6G  821M  3.6G  19% /usr
/dev/hda6             2.8G  113M  2.6G   5% /var
fe:/home               50G   16G   32G  34% /mnt/fe/home

I'm out of space on /.  and the install is trying to write to /lib

dpkg: error processing 
/var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686_2.6.8-16_i386.deb 
(--unpack):
  failed in buffer_write(fd) (8, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during 
`./lib/modules/2.6.8-2-686/kernel/drivers/video/console/fbcon.ko': No 
space left on device


Will moving the contents of lib somewhere else, like /usr/mylib and soft 
linking /lib->/usr/mylib work as a workaround?  Will my machine be able 
to boot correctly?

Thanks
Jay



Rick Moen wrote:
>>I did a
>>
>>hydrogen:/# du -hxs *
> 
> 
> I suspect that including "x" sabotaged your intent, there, since, if
> memory serves, it limits the report to subdirectories on just the one
> filesystem you happen to specify, and omits all others.  So, if your
> current directory at that time -- which I gather must have been the root
> directory -- was on a filesystem didn't include /var, then the report
> wouldn't tell you anything about that subtree.
> 
> If my guess is correct about the package cache, you might just make a
> point of using one of the apt commands to clean out the cache on
> occasion.  Note that some of the higher-level tools (that call apt-get)
> will take care of that housekeeping for you.
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