Thanks Karsten
Actually, /var, /home, and /usr are on separate partitions (I think I
deleted them in the interest of the email)
hydrogen:/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 133M 111M 15M 89% /
tmpfs 189M 4.0K 189M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda8 27G 1.4G 24G 6% /home
/dev/hda7 361M 8.1M 334M 3% /tmp
/dev/hda5 4.6G 905M 3.5G 21% /usr
/dev/hda6 2.8G 115M 2.6G 5% /var
fe:/home 50G 16G 32G 34% /mnt/fe/home
I'll follow your guide when I repartition (eminently)
Jay
Karsten M. Self wrote:
on Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 11:28:01PM -0500, Jay Strauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
Hi,
I was trying to install kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686, on debian sarge. But
I'm getting:
dpkg: error processing
/var/cache/apt/archives/kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686_2.6.8-16
_i386.deb (--unpack):
failed in buffer_write(fd) (8, ret=-1): backend dpkg-deb during
`./lib/modules/
2.6.8-2-686/kernel/sound/pci/trident/snd-trident-synth.ko': No space
left on device
I don't know what's taking up space and what I can delete. I did a
hydrogen:/# du -hxs *
2.7M bin
8.3M boot
0 cdrom
88K dev
6.9M etc
1.0K initrd
0 initrd.img
79M lib
12K lost+found
3.0K media
6.0K mnt
385M proc
3.3M root
3.6M sbin
1.0K srv
0 sys
13K tmp
0 vmlinuz
That's part of the answer.
You need to specify your filesystems too. If you're running a single
filesysytem, the above is comprehensie. Looks like you're missing /var
and /usr from there.
'df -h' is what you want to show. In my case we'd see:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 228M 196M 21M 91% /
tmpfs 475M 4.0K 475M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 38M 28M 8.8M 76% /boot
/dev/hda9 259M 154M 106M 60% /tmp
/dev/hda10 1004M 818M 187M 82% /var
/dev/hda11 3.0G 2.8G 143M 96% /usr
/dev/hda12 1004M 493M 512M 50% /usr/local
/dev/hda13 12G 11G 742M 94% /home
(I like lots of partitions ;-)
To track down specific filesystem usage, I like:
du -sx * | sort -nr
...which will sort utilization of directories (and files) within the
current directory. Going down the subdirectories tends to be pretty
fast due to disk caching.
A really nice graphical utility for identifying where storage issues
exist is 'filelight':
http://www.methylblue.com/filelight/
...which shows usage graphically, allows drilling down to see what
specifically is using space.
My current partitioning recommendations are here:
http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/NixPartitioning
Now I'm a bit afraid to reboot my machine, for fear its been left in a
damaged state.
Should only be the new kernel that's not properly installed. Since its
installation didn't complete, you shouldn't have to worry about it.
Bootable disks (Knoppix, LNX-BBC, DSL, etc.) will pretty much always get
you back into your system even if you've mucked something up badly.
Peace.
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