On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 1:34 AM Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote:

> Folks.
> I went to do an update when it tried to upgrade things the whole thing
> abended
> with a batch of lines indicating that "root was almost full". I went to
> look at it and
> found the the directory had to be accessed as administrator, when I looked
> into it
> I did not see anything of large size. The root directory is 9.1G in size,
> if I look at
> it with gpartd it is shown as almost full. But I cannot find the offending
> file(s).
>
> I did a google on root full and it's variants (I have only seen this one on
> Mate 18.04,
> on 16.04 it never showed up). I am trying to figure out how to recover from
> the bad
> update as it will not even boot now.
>
> One other thing which maybe related to this, the last log files are from
> May?!?!
>
>
> apt-get purge
might clean some unneeded packages out.

Bill Barry
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