> > That's what I really want to find out :-). A couple of years ago, even a 50 > Mb / > partition seemed OK. IIRC, with debian 1.3 it was just a 3 or 4 floppy > install. > > From what I gather, when you install a new kernel image using apt-get, the > old > one is kept (which is a sensible decision) and present-day kernels (plus the > modules etc) take up quite a lot of space after unpacking and I have to > install > the pcmcia modules at the same time as well. I'm not my linux box now so I > cannot provide more factual information at the current moment. >
Hmm, lots of modules could be eating your inodes. So you think you have space but actually have no inodes to allocate. Or perhaps /tmp is a culprit? On my system / looks like this: 3.4M /bin 1.2M /boot 26k /dev 4.8M /etc 8.4M /lib 2.8M /sbin Which is 20mb or so. /tmp and /root are common places for problems to hide. Perhaps a copy of the kernel source tarball is still in root's home dir.
