Re: var is full...

On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:45:48AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Using strace, the difference seems to be that apt-get clean removes > /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin. However you don't need to run apt-get > update : this file seems to be rebuilt by any apt command. > > apt-get clean > apt-cache

Re: var is full...

Chris Bannister a écrit : > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 06:41:50AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Brian: >>> To remove every package and the package lists in apt/archives: >>> >>> apt-get clean. >> The package lists are unaffected by the clean operation. You do not need >> to run an update

Re: var is full...

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 06:41:50AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Brian: > > > > To remove every package and the package lists in apt/archives: > > > > apt-get clean. > > The package lists are unaffected by the clean operation. You do not need > to run an update afterwards. Then explain the

Re: var is full...

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:33:50PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:08:35 -0500 > Whit Hansell wrote: > > Hello Whit, > > >is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with > >knowledge give me the subdirectories in var/cache that I can

Re: var is full...

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 15:42:29 (+0100), Hans wrote: > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you do > not need (for example old packages). Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that one could

Re: var is full...

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 12:20:51 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:42:29 +0100 > Hans wrote: > > > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you > > do

Re: var is full...

On Wednesday 18 November 2015 15:36:47 Brian wrote: > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 12:20:51 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:42:29 +0100 > > > > Hans wrote: > > > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > > > > > Then mount the

Re: var is full...

On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 09:08:35 -0500, Whit Hansell wrote: > my Var directory is 100% full. I have googled abouit it and reallly haven't > gotten a decent idea of what I can safely delete from var. I have bot tmp > and cache subdirectories and can easily fump the tmp but it is very small > and

Re: var is full...

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:42:29 +0100 Hans wrote: > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you do > not need (for example old packages). Or just su to root in a console, cd

Re: var is full...

Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2015, 09:41:38 schrieb David Wright: > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 15:42:29 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you > > do not need (for example

Re: var is full...

Hi Whit, try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you do not need (for example old packages). If your filesystem is not encrypted, then youz might want to enlarge the partition without any loss. You

var is full...

Hey y'all, my Var directory is 100% full. I have googled abouit it and reallly haven't gotten a decent idea of what I can safely delete from var. I have bot tmp and cache subdirectories and can easily fump the tmp but it is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with

Re: var is full...

On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:08:35 -0500 Whit Hansell wrote: Hello Whit, >is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with >knowledge give me the subdirectories in var/cache that I can empty to >get a reasonable amount of free space? Running Jessie on an

Re: var is full...

To see how much is used where order as super user du /var -hx --max-depth=1 Do you have mount points in /var ? Regards, jvp.

Re: var is full...

Brian: > > To remove every package and the package lists in apt/archives: > > apt-get clean. The package lists are unaffected by the clean operation. You do not need to run an update afterwards. What's not generally known is that apt comes with a cron job that can perform house keeping. It

Re: var is full...(Solved)

not boot the machine. That was not the problem. It was that the var partition was full and it needs space to use apt, cups, and other programs. I do have another problem I am working on that may have been cause partly because of the full partitioin but i will ask for help on that if I can't get

dpkg unable to write to /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var partition full

Hello there, I booted up my system this morning and tried to install something with aptitude, only to get the error message: W: Could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only mode; any changes you make to the states of packages will NOT be preserved! E: dpkg was interrupted, you must

Re: dpkg unable to write to /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var partition full

On 20/04/2008, Kyle Barbour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello there, I booted up my system this morning and tried to install something with aptitude, only to get the error message: W: Could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only mode; any changes you make to the states of packages

Re: dpkg unable to write to /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var partition full

Kyle Barbour: dpkg: failed to write status record about `vlc-nox' to `/var/lib/dpkg/status': No space left on device Run 'apt-get clean' and see how much free space you get. Apt stores downloaded debs locally and never deletes them until asked to do so. J. -- I have been manipulated and

Re: dpkg unable to write to /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var partition full

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/20/08 16:34, Kyle Barbour wrote: Hello there, I booted up my system this morning and tried to install something with aptitude, only to get the error message: W: Could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only mode; any changes you

Re: dpkg unable to write to /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var partition full

On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 04:53:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: There's got to be a way to delete old/un-needed .deb files. Using apt-get, it's: # apt-get clean 'clean' will remove all .deb files. I think it's better to use autoclean. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you

Re: partition /var is full

on Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. To solve the

partition /var is full

Hello, I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. To solve the problem temporarily, I have removed the biggest files in /var/log/. How can I solve this

Re: partition /var is full

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. To solve the problem temporarily, I

Re: partition /var is full

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. To solve the problem temporarily, I

Re: partition /var is full

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:28:31PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't

Re: partition /var is full

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. To solve the problem temporarily, I

Re: partition /var is full

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:08:54AM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:28:31PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. When it is full

Re: partition /var is full

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't download my messages in

Re: partition /var is full

On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 05:14:36PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't

Re: /var Partition Full from APT Packages

On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:51:46 -0500 Nelson E. Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a a lot of older versions of debian packages in apt/archives that is just taking up space. Is there a command in apt that I can use to remove all the older versions without having to physically

Re: /var Partition Full from APT Packages

Hello Alexander! On Sun, Mar 14, 2004 at 01:20:49AM -0800, Alexander B. Cheng wrote: On Sat, 13 Mar 2004 22:51:46 -0500 Nelson E. Castillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a a lot of older versions of debian packages in apt/archives that is just taking up space. Is there a command in

/var Partition Full from APT Packages

Hi All, I've seem to have a problem with my /var partition being full. My partition for /var is 1.9 gigs and files in my apt/archives have taken up 1.5gigs. There are a a lot of older versions of debian packages in apt/archives that is just taking up space. Is there a command in apt that I can

Re: /var Partition Full from APT Packages

There are a a lot of older versions of debian packages in apt/archives that is just taking up space. Is there a command in apt that I can use to remove all the older versions without having to physically delete each package one by one? # apt-get autoclean Regards, Nelson.- --

/var är full!

Min /var är full! Därför så skapade jag en till partition som heter /var2. Men hur gör jag för att den också ska användas som en /var partition? Kan jag köra en resize på partitionen med något verktyg i Linux? Björn Johansson

Re: /var är full!

man ju ha unionfs som man kan använda för att slå ihop två partitioner vid monteringen, men jag tror inte det finns i linux, och hursomhelst så blir det nog bara jättekonstigt med nyskapade filer och så isf.. Min /var är full! Därför så skapade jag en till partition som heter /var2. Men hur

Re: /var är full!

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 [15:07], Björn Johansson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Min /var är full! Därför så skapade jag en till partition som heter /var2. Men hur gör jag för att den också ska användas som en /var partition? Jadu, du kan ju börja med att kontrollera varför var är full? gamla

/var getting full

I just did a new cd install of 2.2. I have a 15g hard drive, 5g of which is a windoze partition, 5g for Linux and another 5 free space for BSD when I finally get around to installing it. I just started watching the disk contents, because I've set up disk partitions with 300megs for /var and /200

Re: /var getting full

Check out /var/cache/apt/archives ... this is the default place apt puts downloaded packages. apt-get autoclean will clear out old packages, apt-get clean will delete all the packages and if you install apt-move, apt-move update will generate a local mirror for you using the packages in

Re: /var getting full-SOLVED!

this is an easy one, /var was being filled by apt-cache and cleaned up by running apt-get clean Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just did a new cd install of 2.2. I have a 15g hard drive, 5g of which is a windoze partition, 5g for Linux and another 5 free space for BSD when I finally

Re: /var getting full-SOLVED!

Dale Morris wrote: this is an easy one, /var was being filled by apt-cache and cleaned up by running apt-get clean Actually, /var/cache/apt is both filled and cleaned by apt-get. As I understand it, apt-cache is for querying and manipulating the contents of /var/lib/apt/lists. And yes,