On Saturday 21 December 2002 01:07, R. Stia wrote:
>
> Bingo!! That is why I was cleaning out /tmp my / file system shows at
> being 100% full. Now, that is the really weird part. Just a couple of
> weeks ago it was only about 40% full.
>
> I cured the problem {temporarily) by moving about 250 megs to another
> partition. Now it shows as 99.2% full, but at least I can now log in as
> a user.
>
> Now, why would my partition jump from 40% to 100% full? What I can think
> of is this. Am using apt-get to upgrade my system constantly. Working
> very well up to this point. Those files are temporarily put in
> var/cache/apt/archives until they are executed and then removed.(these
> are the files I moved to give me space)
To clean out your apt archive cache, merely do this:
# apt-get clean
No need to go in and manually clear those files.
> What I did was to try and upgrade my lilo and kernel in preparation for
> an upgrade to SuSE 8.1. Got a message that it failed due to
> insufficient space in Var/cache/apt/archives. That is when I found out
> I could no longer boot as a user the next time I tried to log in.
>
> Have been following the other thread about "100% on a data drive...."
> and it seems that might have something to do with it????
>
> Anyway, I am now faced with a 99.2% full partition that should be only
> about 40%. What has happened?
My favorite way of finding out:
# du -xk /mountpoint | sort -rn | less
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