[Novalug] another more or less trivial question for a tech session.

Nino Pereira pereira@speakeasy.net
Thu Jan 3 11:09:28 EST 2008


Hi, to all you gurus:

here's another problem, of the type that can hang you up forever
until you hear the solution from an expert: what to do when you have
'not enough space left on device'.

When I update and upgrade, all the space in /var is eaten up somehow,
taken up. df gives:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1              5044156    218240   4569684   5% /
tmpfs                   518356         0    518356   0% /lib/init/rw
udev                     10240      1532      8708  15% /dev
tmpfs                   518356         4    518352   1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6              1011928   1007600         0 100% /var
/dev/hda5              1011928     26356    934168   3% /tmp
/dev/hda7             10080488   4455172   5113248  47% /usr
/dev/hda8             10080488    413752   9154668   5% /opt
/dev/hda9             40321996  10736080  27537632  29% /home
/dev/hda10            46538796     69492  46469304   1% /scratch

But, /opt is almost empty. The two questions that come up are:
1: where did all the space go? and how do you find this out; and
2: how do you give /var more space?

On 2, I once made a soft link to something that's empty, like /opt.
I suspect it's /opt/apt-archives, but, how do I find out whether there's
a soft link to this directory?

Questions, questions...

Nino




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