Out of space

[C de-Avillez]

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 02:12:33 +1000
Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> On Mon, 2016-08-01 at 11:45 -0400, Richard Barmann wrote:
> > Filesystem     1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > udev             1013336       0   1013336   0% /dev
> > tmpfs             206224    6532    199692   4% /run
> > /dev/sdb8        8438224 7166252    820288  90% /
> > tmpfs            1031100     220   1030880   1% /dev/shm
> > tmpfs               5120       4      5116   1% /run/lock
> > tmpfs            1031100       0   1031100   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> > cgmfs                100       0       100   0% /run/cgmanager/fs
> > tmpfs             206224      52    206172   1% /run/user/1000
> >   
> 
> Are you trolling us? That's an 8GB filesystem on sdb8. You are not
> telling us the whole story.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 

No, the OP is not trolling. There are indeed 800*MB* available on /, but
there is also the fact that / is 90% full. The whole partition is 8GB
big.

So yes, the OP is running out of disk space. A previous email suggested
'sudo apt-get clean && sudo apt-get autoclean'. It is a good idea to
run them, and then compare the size of / (via 'df /', or 'df -h /'; the
last one will give out the data in "human readable form".

For current usage, 8GB for root is quite a small space for graphical
interfaces & generic usage. It would survive if other partitions were
used to mount /home and some other space-hungry areas, like /var.

Cheers,

..C..
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 819 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/attachments/20160801/b59b217d/attachment.sig>