On Tue, Apr 04, 2023 at 05:50:13PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > (This post is also a test of whether the mailing list is working.) > > 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.
My upgrades are always: apt update && apt full-upgrade && apt clean Definitely no reason to keep all the downloads around. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
