On Sun 01 Jul 2018 at 13:17:47 (-0700), Charlie Gibbs wrote: > I've been banging my head against the wall trying to compile OpenSSL > clients on my Jessie laptop (see my recent posting titled "Can't > link to OpenSSL on my laptop). I've decided to upgrade it to > Stretch like my desktop machine, which compiles these programs > successfully. However, "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" shows the > message: > > E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. > > apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean. When I > tried apt-get autoremove, the upgrade started, but at 99% completion > it threw the message: > > Error writing to output file - write (28: No space left on device) > > Sure enough, / is full, with all the fun that that entails.
It's worth knowing where the problem lies. I would type du -sh /[a-ln-z]*/ 2>/dev/null (I dodge m because /media has loads mounted under it; null avoids permissions clutter if you do this as a user.) Then you can refine it depending what you find: du -sh /var/*/ 2>/dev/null > Is Jessie's default partitioning insufficient for Stretch, or have I > somehow filled up / with extraneous junk? Would I be better off > backing up /home, wiping the disk (e.g. with cfdisk) and starting > from scratch? (Probably - I should probably split /var into a > separate partition anyway.) A separate /home is more useful as it allows a fresh installation of the / partition that doesn't touch it. > After this experience, I'm gun-shy about upgrading a system in place. Why? If you find the cause, you can fix it. Upgrades are careful about preserving the system's integrity to run. > BTW is it ok to sudo apt-get, or should I su root and run it from an > actual root prompt? Cheers, David.
