On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 06:36:39 (-0500), Charles Blair wrote:
> I think I'm running out of space on my
> laptop. The last time I got an "updates
> available" message, I got a further warning,
> during the update, that I was low on space.
> The update did seem to complete, though.
>
> However, when I tried to use the calculator
> program dc afterwards, the computer just sat
> there.
>
> Below is the output from the df command.
> Thanks very much for any help!
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> rootfs 330215 193394 119772 62% /
> udev 10240 0 10240 0% /dev
> tmpfs 400736 708 400028 1% /run
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/0923...36f4ab8e 330215 193394 119772 62% /
> tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
> tmpfs 2457480 84 2457396 1% /run/shm
> /dev/sda10 176581224 2269620 165341776 2% /home
> /dev/sda9 376807 10272 347079 3% /tmp
> /dev/sda6 8649992 6057732 2152864 74% /usr
> /dev/sda7 2882592 1857652 878508 68% /var
Well, you've survived over a year so you aren't doing so badly. The
main difference I can see is that your /var has increased from 19%
to 68%. Have you run that duse command on it recently? Here's my
wheezy /var but bear in mind that my /var/cache contains apt-cacher-ng
which is holding all the .deb files for both wheezy and jessie (and
backport and bits of sid).
9087M /var/
11M /var/backups/
8646M /var/cache/
376M /var/lib/
1M /var/local/
0M /var/lock/
53M /var/log/
1M /var/mail/
1M /var/opt/
1M /var/run/
1M /var/spool/
2M /var/tmp/
So apart from that cache, I've got 447MB and you've got 1.8GB.
How's your /var/tmp? I think you're responsible for any cleaning
done there, unlike /tmp.
The only other thing I can suggest at present is running df while
those warnings are being generated.
Cheers,
David.
