cd / du . | sort -n 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 > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
