Quoting Elimar Riesebieter (riese...@lxtec.de): > * Tony van der Hoff <t...@vanderhoff.org> [2015-09-01 14:17 +0200]: > > > On this jessie box I have started to see /var/lib/apt/lists/partial > > gradually filling the entire 2.7 GiB /var partition with hundreds of > > smallish files. Google show some results for a similar, but not > > identical problem for Ubuntu but I can't find anything matching this. > > > > This problem has developed over the last few days. > > > > A partial directory listing is attached (to circumvent wrapping). > > > > Can anyone suggest a remedy to this problem, please?
I don't have any answer to this, only questions. Presumably ls -lt tells you when these files were created. Is this periodic, and is this because you have automated apt-get update? If you run apt-get update manually, do you get errors? After doing that, is there a new tranche of files? Or are there any fewer? The .decomp. names suggest decompression has taken place and these are the output files. Perhaps decompression is failing and setting a return code preventing further treatment. > Try > > # apt-get clean > > From apt-get(8): > > clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It > removes everything but the lock file from /var/cache/apt/archives/ and > /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/. > > So after an apt-get update /var/lib/apt/lists/partial should be > recharged at least to zero size. Unfortunately, apt-get clean cleans the *cache*, not the lists. But in any case, best not wipe away the symptoms without looking for a cause first as there may be clues in the files' properties. Cheers, David.
