Public bug reported:
I recently ran out of disk space on my / mount. While looking for what
consumed the disk I noticed a large number (130) of directories with
names / paths beginning /var/tmp/mkinitramfs. These directories seem to
be either ~103 MB or ~927 MB in size. Many of these files are months
old, some are almost a year.
Having had a quick look about for an explanation as to why these files
are here and found Debian Bug #814345. That explains that temporary
files are left behind by the initramfs-tools if something fails in the
process. If this is the cause of my files then updating the Ubuntu
package to version 0.123 should resolve this issue.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.122ubuntu8.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-72.93-generic 4.4.49
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-72-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Aug 25 09:40:41 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-12 (896 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20150218.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: initramfs-tools (Debian)
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #814345
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814345
** Also affects: initramfs-tools (Debian) via
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814345
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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Title:
Temporary files left under /var/tmp by mkinitramfs
Status in initramfs-tools package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in initramfs-tools package in Debian:
Unknown
Bug description:
I recently ran out of disk space on my / mount. While looking for
what consumed the disk I noticed a large number (130) of directories
with names / paths beginning /var/tmp/mkinitramfs. These directories
seem to be either ~103 MB or ~927 MB in size. Many of these files are
months old, some are almost a year.
Having had a quick look about for an explanation as to why these files
are here and found Debian Bug #814345. That explains that temporary
files are left behind by the initramfs-tools if something fails in the
process. If this is the cause of my files then updating the Ubuntu
package to version 0.123 should resolve this issue.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: initramfs-tools 0.122ubuntu8.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-72.93-generic 4.4.49
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-72-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.10
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Aug 25 09:40:41 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-03-12 (896 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64
(20150218.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: initramfs-tools
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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