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GTALUG's server's filesystem filled up: little disk space left.
I discovered this when I tried to do "apt update; apt full-upgrade".
The second step failed, saying that /var/cache/apt/archives had no
room. This means that / has no room because / contains that
directory.
Tip: "df /some/path" will tell you how much space is used on the
filesystem containing /some/path and it will tell you the mount point
of that file system.
I wandered around the filesystem, doing:
sudo df -s * | sort -n
This command lists things in the current directory, and their sizes,
largest last. (It skips things with names starting with ".".)
Pretty soon, I found that most of the space was taken up by
/var/cache/apt/archives after all. This kind of surprised me.
Googling got me to others with this problem. The advice:
sudo apt autoclean
That gave back (only) 3% of the disk.
That directory was still way too big. Most of the space was taken by
35 versions of gitlab-runner. I have no idea why we need multiple
versions.
Violence is sometimes the answer.
sudo apt clean
That left only 32% of / used.
Note /var/cache/apt/archives is only a cache. If the system wants any
of these, it should be able to find them in a repo.
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