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On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 5:42 PM Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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