* Bonno Bloksma <b.blok...@tio.nl> [2016-04-20 06:52 +0000]: > Hi, > [...] > > My /var partition had filled up, it seems out of the 3GB there was about > 2.5GB in /var/cache/apt/archives. > The solution was simple, just an apt-get autoclean, I now have 2.2GB free on > my /var partition. ;-) > > But..... What wanted apt write to that mandb and was that important? > /usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/8774: No space left on device > Was that that man page for ssh or something like that? > > After cleaning up I did another apt-get upgrade but it reported nothing to do. > So if it failed to update some files why did it complete anyhow?
Because /var/cache/man/ resides on the apt-get autocleaned /var partition? Sigh Elimar -- Alles was viel bedacht wird ist bedenklich!;-) Friedrich Nietzsche