On Tuesday 05 April 2016 15:34:37 David Wright wrote: > 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.
May the OP have run out of inodes in / ? Lisi
