[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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