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% / udev 288M 12K 287M 1% /dev tmpfs 60M 196K 59M 1% /run none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock none 296M 0 296M 0% /run/shm $ df -i Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 524288 518210 6078 99% / udev 73475 379 73096 1% /dev tmpfs 75541 266 75275 1% /run none 75541 3 75538 1% /run/lock none 75541 1 75540 1% /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
