Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-04-05 22:07 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >>> rootfs 323M 189M 117M 62% / >> This is the problem. The root filesystem is too small, so you will not >> be able to install or upgrade a Debian kernel.

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-06 Thread Adam Wilson
On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 06:36:39 -0500 Charles Blair wrote: >I think I'm running out of space on my > laptop. The last time I got an "updates > available" message, I got a further warning, > during the update, that I was low on space. > The update did seem to complete, though. > >However, wh

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 09:56, arian wrote: > > > The Debian Wiki, circa 2009 when I last built a Debian system from > scratch, used to advise this kind of setup for performance and backup > convenience. I have almost the same partition structure (although my disks, > note disks plural) are a lot b

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> rootfs 323M 189M 117M 62% / > This is the problem. The root filesystem is too small, so you will not > be able to install or upgrade a Debian kernel. This is a bug[1] in the > automatic partitioner that o

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread arian
> The Debian Wiki, circa 2009 when I last built a Debian system from scratch, > used to advise this kind of setup for performance and backup convenience. I > have almost the same partition structure (although my disks, note disks > plural) are a lot bigger so I don't have space problems. and t

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread Mark Fletcher
On Wed, 6 Apr 2016 at 07:11, arian wrote: > Hi Charles, > > why is your system spread across this many partitions? Having / + /home ( > and where appropriate /boot or /boot/efi ) is far less cumbersome as you > only need to maintain 2-3 partitions, for instance a reasonable amount of > free space

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 22:46:10 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 05 April 2016 19:13:23 David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 16:46:36 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > May the OP have run out of inodes in / ? > > > > Here's my prediction :) > > > > 1010% / > > 120

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread arian
Hi Charles, why is your system spread across this many partitions? Having / + /home ( and where appropriate /boot or /boot/efi ) is far less cumbersome as you only need to maintain 2-3 partitions, for instance a reasonable amount of free space on them. On btrfs, zfs you can even go to 1-2 parti

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 05 April 2016 19:13:23 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 16:46:36 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > May the OP have run out of inodes in / ? > > Here's my prediction :) > > 1010% / > 120 1% /home > 10 1% /tmp > 6050% /usr > 2010% /

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread Joe
On Tue, 5 Apr 2016 15:29:00 -0500 Charles Blair wrote: >Many thanks for all the assistance! > >My apologies for hitting the panic button over > dc waiting for me to type in some numbers, which is, > of course, what it is supposed to do. > >There were several other questions from my

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2016-04-05 15:29 -0500, Charles Blair wrote: >Many thanks for all the assistance! > >My apologies for hitting the panic button over > dc waiting for me to type in some numbers, which is, > of course, what it is supposed to do. > >There were several other questions from my > would-be

Re: Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread Charles Blair
Many thanks for all the assistance! My apologies for hitting the panic button over dc waiting for me to type in some numbers, which is, of course, what it is supposed to do. There were several other questions from my would-be helpers, but for now: Output from df -h Filesystem

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 16:46:36 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > May the OP have run out of inodes in / ? Here's my prediction :) 1010% / 120 1% /home 10 1% /tmp 6050% /usr 2010% /var Cheers, David.

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 18:00:30 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 05 April 2016 17:46:24 David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 16:46:36 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Tuesday 05 April 2016 15:34:37 David Wright wrote: > > > > On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 06:36:39 (-0500), Charles Blair w

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 17:15:18 (+), Curt wrote: > On 2016-04-05, David Wright wrote: > > > > It's always possible, though the error message (wherever that's coming > > from) could be better. Posting the result of > > > > df -i > > > > would be far more use than df -h (and doesn't require root

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread Curt
On 2016-04-05, David Wright wrote: > > It's always possible, though the error message (wherever that's coming > from) could be better. Posting the result of > > df -i > > would be far more use than df -h (and doesn't require root access). df -h requires root access? > Cheers, > David. > > --

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 05 April 2016 17:46:24 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 16:46:36 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 April 2016 15:34:37 David Wright wrote: > > > On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 06:36:39 (-0500), Charles Blair wrote: > > > >I think I'm running out of space on my > > > > la

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 16:46:36 (+0100), Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Tuesday 05 April 2016 15:34:37 David Wright wrote: > > On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 06:36:39 (-0500), Charles Blair wrote: > > >I think I'm running out of space on my > > > laptop. The last time I got an "updates > > > available" message,

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 05 April 2016 15:34:37 David Wright wrote: > On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 06:36:39 (-0500), Charles Blair wrote: > >I think I'm running out of space on my > > laptop. The last time I got an "updates > > available" message, I got a further warning, > > during the update, that I was low on s

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread David Wright
On Tue 05 Apr 2016 at 06:36:39 (-0500), Charles Blair wrote: >I think I'm running out of space on my > laptop. The last time I got an "updates > available" message, I got a further warning, > during the update, that I was low on space. > The update did seem to complete, though. > >However

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread arian
>Below is the output from the df command. > Thanks very much for any help! for everyone's convenience, please post # df -h 's output. regards, arian signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
>However, when I tried to use the calculator program dc afterwards, > the computer just sat there. What else did you expect from `dc`? Stefan

Disk too full?

2016-04-05 Thread Charles Blair
I think I'm running out of space on my laptop. The last time I got an "updates available" message, I got a further warning, during the update, that I was low on space. The update did seem to complete, though. However, when I tried to use the calculator program dc afterwards, the computer ju