Well there's a lot of log files there, is it okay to just delete them all? I don't know to see how much space they are taking up. Glenn ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jude DaShiell" <jdash...@panix.com> To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; "Jeffery Mewtamer" <mewta...@gmail.com>; <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 5:41 PM Subject: Re: no space left on device
Are logs being rotated timely and correctly? If not, you likely have lots of ancient logs in /var/log/. How to check and set up good log rotation I don't know though. Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) . On Wed, 30 Nov 2022, K0LNY_Glenn wrote: > Thanks Samuel and Jeffrey, > I deleted everything in /tmp with > sudo rm -R *.* > and it removed everything except a file or folder called pulse-something > The something was letters and numbers. > I got rid of that with > rm -R puls* > So I rebooted, and I still get the same error. > I'm wondering about how to migrate everything to an SD card and boot to > that > instead, I have some 32 GB sd cards around, and this computer can boot to > that instead of the internal 4GB drive. > Glenn > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeffery Mewtamer" <mewta...@gmail.com> > To: "K0LNY_Glenn" <glenn@ervin.email>; > <debian-accessibility@lists.debian.org> > Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2022 4:26 PM > Subject: Re: no space left on device > > > Yeah, doing a sudo rm -Rf /tmp/* should be safe. > > My system drive is 320 GB, but before I got in the routine of > regularly clearing out /tmp/ I'd get such errors constantly once /tmp/ > accumulated 2GB of temp files. > > Worst I've noticed is that Firefox and/or Orca are a little more prone > to crashing after I run my clean.sh script, and even then, I can't be > sure its related to clearing /tmp/ and not something else in the > script and even then, my tabs almost always restore properly, so > usually, the most I lose is the minute or so it takes tty1 to drop > down to the console following a crash and to relaunch my stripped down > x-server. > >
