On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:18:37PM +1000, Ted Percival <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Daniel Burrows wrote: >> Could you include the contents of sources.list, so I can see what >> methods you're using, and describe exactly what symptoms you see? > > I saw aptitude continue to download packages. There was nothing out of the > ordinary as far as aptitude appeared. I knew I'd run out of space when I > got a notification from Gnome saying my disk was 100% full. I opened a > terminal and ran 'df -h' and saw that there were indeed 0 bytes free.
Are you sure you really had a full partition, and not just one that had exhausted its non-root quota? e.g., [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ df -h /mnt Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /home/daniel/testfs 49M 46M 0 100% /mnt Note that "Size" and "Used" differ. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo "test" > /mnt/test.txt bash: echo: write error: No space left on device test [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo echo "test" > /mnt/test.txt > Daniel Burrows also wrote: >> When I manually generate a low-space condition [...] > > Out of interest, did you do that by actually filling up your disk, or is > there some other mechanism for causing ENOSPC? By filling up the disk, with "dd if=/dev/zero of=/some/file". Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
