Re: [SOLVED] /root is full

2014-07-30 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 23:10:48 -0400 The Wanderer wrote: once every few years, and nothing > seems to do it automatically.) > > Admittedly I have ridiculous amounts of local storage space, but even > when I install Debian in a VM on a 40GB virtual hard disk, I wouldn't > consider allocating less

Re: [SOLVED] /root is full

2014-07-29 Thread The Wanderer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 07/29/2014 04:24 PM, Joe wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:32:10 -0400 Haines Brown > wrote: > >> My / usage is still huge, 258 Mb, but at least the "full" problem >> is gone. > > If you follow the common practice of keeping the previous kernel

Re: [SOLVED] /root is full

2014-07-29 Thread Joe
On Tue, 29 Jul 2014 14:32:10 -0400 Haines Brown wrote: > > My / usage is still huge, 258 Mb, but at least the "full" problem is > gone. If you follow the common practice of keeping the previous kernel as a spare for troubleshooting purposes, then this is sadly normal these days. There's 100MB

Re: [SOLVED] /root is full

2014-07-29 Thread Bill Unruh
I knew because you said that you had tried to backup some files to storage and sdb13 was not mounted on storage. So where those files went was into / partition. When you mounted sdb13 on top of /storage, all those files became inaccessible but they were still there taking up stace. This happened

Re: [SOLVED] /root is full

2014-07-29 Thread Hans
> > My / usage is still huge, 258 Mb, but at least the "full" problem is gone. > I hope I can ignore the doubly mounted root partition. > > Haines Hust a little hint: If you have no encrypted partitions, you can resize your partitions using "gparted". Best use is, to run it from a livefile cd

Re: [SOLVED] /root is full

2014-07-29 Thread Haines Brown
> > # df > > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > > rootfs474440 474440 0 100% / > > udev 102400 10240 0% /dev > > tmpfs 830924 1572829352 1% /run > > /dev/di