On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 16:17:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:10 PM Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > > I have PORTAGE_TMPDIR on /tmp, which is a 24GB tmpfs. Last night, an > > update failed with an out of space error. df showed only 440MB free > > but du and ndcu both showed well under 1GB in use (including hidden > > files). this has happened on the odd occasion in the past and the > > only solution appears to be to reboot. Of course, that means I cannot > > provide any more information until it happens again. > > Yeah had this a few times. Always turns out to be deleted files that > something still has a handle on > > Run this: > # lsof /tmp | grep deleted > sddm-help 324615 root 13u REG 0,32 96 184 /tmp/#184 > (deleted)
That was it. It happened again today, it was my duplicity backup script filling /tmp. Killing duplicity released the space. -- Neil Bothwick Sometimes too much to drink is not enough.
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