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

[Jay Strauss]

Thanks Karsten

Actually, /var, /home, and /usr are on separate partitions (I think I 
deleted them in the interest of the email)

hydrogen:/# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             133M  111M   15M  89% /
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  905M  3.5G  21% /usr
/dev/hda6             2.8G  115M  2.6G   5% /var
fe:/home               50G   16G   32G  34% /mnt/fe/home

I'll follow your guide when I repartition (eminently)

Jay




Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 11:28:01PM -0500, Jay Strauss (me at heyjay.com) wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I was trying to install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686, on debian sarge.  But 
>>I'm getting:
>>
>>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/sound/pci/trident/snd-trident-synth.ko': No space 
>>left on device
>>
>>I don't know what's taking up space and what I can delete.  I did a
>>
>>hydrogen:/# du -hxs *
>>2.7M    bin
>>8.3M    boot
>>0       cdrom
>>88K     dev
>>6.9M    etc
>>1.0K    initrd
>>0       initrd.img
>>79M     lib
>>12K     lost+found
>>3.0K    media
>>6.0K    mnt
>>385M    proc
>>3.3M    root
>>3.6M    sbin
>>1.0K    srv
>>0       sys
>>13K     tmp
>>0       vmlinuz
> 
> 
> That's part of the answer.
> 
> You need to specify your filesystems too.  If you're running a single
> filesysytem, the above is comprehensie.  Looks like you're missing /var
> and /usr from there.
> 
> 'df -h' is what you want to show.  In my case we'd see:
> 
>     Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>     /dev/hda2             228M  196M   21M  91% /
>     tmpfs                 475M  4.0K  475M   1% /dev/shm
>     /dev/hda1              38M   28M  8.8M  76% /boot
>     /dev/hda9             259M  154M  106M  60% /tmp
>     /dev/hda10           1004M  818M  187M  82% /var
>     /dev/hda11            3.0G  2.8G  143M  96% /usr
>     /dev/hda12           1004M  493M  512M  50% /usr/local
>     /dev/hda13             12G   11G  742M  94% /home
> 
> (I like lots of partitions ;-)
> 
> 
> To track down specific filesystem usage, I like:
> 
>    du -sx * | sort -nr
> 
> ...which will sort utilization of directories (and files) within the
> current directory.  Going down the subdirectories tends to be pretty
> fast due to disk caching.
> 
> A really nice graphical utility for identifying where storage issues
> exist is 'filelight':
> 
>     http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/
> 
> ...which shows usage graphically, allows drilling down to see what
> specifically is using space.
> 
> 
> My current partitioning recommendations are here:
> 
>     http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning
> 
> 
> 
>>Now I'm a bit afraid to reboot my machine, for fear its been left in a
>>damaged state.
> 
> 
> Should only be the new kernel that's not properly installed.  Since its
> installation didn't complete, you shouldn't have to worry about it.
> 
> Bootable disks (Knoppix, LNX-BBC, DSL, etc.) will pretty much always get
> you back into your system even if you've mucked something up badly.
> 
> 
> Peace.
> 
> 
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