Disk full ??

[MatthewJS]

I get:


df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 2885812 2383472 355748 88% /
none 1668284 280 1668004 1% /dev
none 1672528 7008 1665520 1% /dev/shm
none 1672528 216 1672312 1% /var/run
none 1672528 0 1672528 0% /var/lock
none 1672528 0 1672528 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda5 4806904 1290864 3271856 29% /tmp
/dev/sda8 440152152 192974224 224819468 47% /home
/dev/sda3 6728312 5099452 1287080 80% /usr
/dev/sda6 19228276 255560 17995968 2% /usr/local
/dev/sda7 4806904 681868 3880852 15% /var


when I execute df. As you can see all partitions have space. I get:

sudo apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies...Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-headers-2.6.32-40 linux-headers-2.6.32-40-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed
linux-headers-2.6.32-40 linux-headers-2.6.32-40-generic
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 131 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/10.7MB of archives.
After this operation, 85.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 478750 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.32-40 (from .../linux-headers-2.6.32-40_2.6.32-40.87_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-40_2.6.32-40.87_all.deb (--unpack):
error creating directory `./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-40/arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386': No space left on device
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.32-40-generic (from .../linux-headers-2.6.32-40-generic_2.6.32-40.87_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-40-generic_2.6.32-40.87_i386.deb (--unpack):
error creating symbolic link `./usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.32-40-generic/include/linux/smp.h': No space left on device
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-40_2.6.32-40.87_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-2.6.32-40-generic_2.6.32-40.87_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


when I execute sudo apt-get -f install. It doesn't make sense to me. It is reporting that there is no disk space left but clearly there is. Anyone got any ideas?

Regards,

Matthew ](*,)

[darkod]

Yes, you do have the 85MB mentioned but I wonder if it complains about root being 88% full. You can't expect it to accept a 100% full root.

The disk full message does mention /usr and not /, but who knows...

[BertN45]

Linux reserves 5% of the disk space to be sure it still can work and be upgraded, maybe you are running against that limit during the upgrade. You could change that limit as discussed below.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1372331

[iponeverything]

check your available inodes


df -i

[MatthewJS]

check your available inodes


df -i
I get:

df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 183264 68466 114798 38% /
none 212173 814 211359 1% /dev
none 214294 11 214283 1% /dev/shm
none 214294 64 214230 1% /var/run
none 214294 2 214292 1% /var/lock
none 214294 3 214291 1% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda5 305824 2857 302967 1% /tmp
/dev/sda8 27951104 328293 27622811 2% /home
/dev/sda3 427392 420918 6474 99% /usr
/dev/sda6 1221600 1517 1220083 1% /usr/local
/dev/sda7 305824 13718 292106 5% /var

[roelforg]

I get:

/usr is full to the brim
it can't write it's stuff there

[MatthewJS]

/usr is full to the brim
it can't write it's stuff there

Thx roelforg. Pardon my ignorance - what can I do about this? Is there some way I can expand /usr (I seem to have capacity elsewhere)?

[roelforg]

Thx roelforg. Pardon my ignorance - what can I do about this? Is there some way I can expand /usr (I seem to have capacity elsewhere)?

I'd like to know why it's on a seperate partition in the first place as you don't seem to really understand hd-partitions and are probably a beginner (no offense, i was once like that as well)

[MatthewJS]

I'd like to know why it's on a seperate partition in the first place as you don't seem to really understand hd-partitions and are probably a beginner (no offense, i was once like that as well)

I took advice from a website :oops:

Is there anything straightforward that I can do about it?

[roelforg]

I took advice from a website :oops:

Is there anything straightforward that I can do about it?

Short answer: no
Long answer: putting seperate essential dirs on seperate partitions is a good idea if you know what youre doing, otherwise it'll be nothing but trouble. I advise adding a second hd and using unionfs(easiest),aufs or similar to merge both partitions on both drives so the second one can take any new writes.

[oldfred]

I think it was 10 or 15 years ago when I installed Redhat for the first time that I had to use separate partitions for system folders. That still can be the case for a server where you may want to have more space for certain applications or security.

Herman on advantages/disadvantages of separate system partitions post#3
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1410392

Now with most desktops you just need / (root) and maybe swap. Although some use no swap if they have lots of RAM or use a swapfile. Many of use like to separate data from system, so we have /home separate or use separate /data partition(s).

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq
Link is on move home but see post by bodhi.zazen on data partition #6
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=325048


Since you have a separate /home, it would not be difficult to reinstall with just / & swap. If you made custom system settings, you might also backup /etc. Just use manual install, create a 25GB / (root) partition and mount current /home as /home but DO NOT format it.

[roelforg]

OldFred is right, generally you just use / and swap unless you've got good reason.
I have all my data (personal files+backup of /etc and package list) on a second drive, it's mounted as /data on boot.
If i nuke hd1, the other one still has enough data to rebuild my system.
Besides that there are several shares mounted.
But i still keep /usr on /