[Bug 1089195] Re: linux-headers will eat your inodes on LTS.
@pabouk Hi. Thanks so much for the help! In fact I wasn't able to use apt-get remove, because it tried to do apt- get update first, which failed because of the inode exhaustion. I wasn't comfortable removing anything manually because I didn't know which files were safe to remove. All but one of the surplus packages in /usr/src were for a linux headers higher than my current linux version, so for all I know the system might depend on them in some way when it tries to upgrade itself from the current version. I erased the one, older package, but this did not free enough inodes to allow any operations to complete. All of the linux headers were piling up in /usr/src. In the end I resolved the process by doing the following: 1. attaching a much larger new volume, formating it, and mounting it on /mnt 2. cp -a /usr/src/* /mnt # to copy all the linux headers onto the other volume 3. rm -rf /usr/src/*# to remove them from the root volume 3. unmount the new volume mounted at /mnt 4. remount the volume at /usr/src By this sequence of operations, I exactly preserved the structure of files and folders on the filesystem, while changing how the inode usage was distributed over partitions. So that relieved the inode exhaustion. Then I was able to use apt-get update, and apt-get autoremove, etc.. to completed the pending upgrades and remove the unused packages. My big takeaway from this is that I was naive to think unattended- upgrades could run for years unattended, like a router. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1089195 Title: linux-headers will eat your inodes on LTS. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1089195/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1089195] Re: linux-headers will eat your inodes on LTS.
I have just encountered this issue on an Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instance. It was setup in early 2014, and has had only a light workload serving an API backend for a medical education system in use by many doctors. Ironically, it seems to be _because_ I enabled unattended-upgrades that the system now cannot update itself. And I not sure how to repair this situation without interrupting service, since many package management commands depend on first doing apt-get update, which is what I cannot do. And I don't think I understand the system well enough to be sure that if I erase something manually it is not critical. If anyone has advice on this, I'd appreciate, even if only pointers to books on more esoteric aspects of Ubuntu package management. $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS Release:12.04 Codename: precise $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 7.9G 5.9G 1.7G 78% / udev288M 12K 287M 1% /dev tmpfs60M 196K 59M 1% /run none5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none296M 0 296M 0% /run/shm $ df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 524288 518210 6078 99% / udev73475379 730961% /dev tmpfs 75541266 752751% /run none75541 3 755381% /run/lock none75541 1 755401% /run/shm $ find /usr/src/ -type f | wc -l 345657 $ uptime 06:18:41 up 664 days, 11:16, 2 users, load average: 0.21, 0.20, 0.13 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1089195 Title: linux-headers will eat your inodes on LTS. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1089195/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 1089195] Re: linux-headers will eat your inodes on LTS.
(Correction: it's a 12.04 LTS installation, as the console output shows.) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1089195 Title: linux-headers will eat your inodes on LTS. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/1089195/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
