Re: var is full...

2015-11-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 09:45:48AM +0100, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Using strace, the difference seems to be that apt-get clean removes > /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin. However you don't need to run apt-get > update : this file seems to be rebuilt by any apt command. > > apt-get clean > apt-cache sho

Re: var is full...

2015-11-20 Thread Pascal Hambourg
Chris Bannister a écrit : > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 06:41:50AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: >> Brian: >>> To remove every package and the package lists in apt/archives: >>> >>> apt-get clean. >> The package lists are unaffected by the clean operation. You do not need >> to run an update afterward

Re: var is full...

2015-11-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 06:41:50AM +0100, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Brian: > > > > To remove every package and the package lists in apt/archives: > > > > apt-get clean. > > The package lists are unaffected by the clean operation. You do not need > to run an update afterwards. Then explain the d

Re: var is full...

2015-11-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 02:33:50PM +, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:08:35 -0500 > Whit Hansell wrote: > > Hello Whit, > > >is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with > >knowledge give me the subdirectories in var/cache that I can empty to > >get a reas

Re: var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread Jochen Spieker
Brian: > > To remove every package and the package lists in apt/archives: > > apt-get clean. The package lists are unaffected by the clean operation. You do not need to run an update afterwards. What's not generally known is that apt comes with a cron job that can perform house keeping. It ca

Re: var is full...(Solved)

2015-11-18 Thread Whit Hansell
To all, [Brad, Hans, Jorg-Volker, Brian and David] Thank you all for your replies. I just got done moving free space from Home to my var partition, again.Darn Debian installer uses too small a var partition as mentioned in my OP. Let me apologize for those who thought I meant I could not

Re: var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2015, 09:41:38 schrieb David Wright: > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 15:42:29 (+0100), Hans wrote: > > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you > > do not need (for example

Re: var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 18 November 2015 15:36:47 Brian wrote: > On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 12:20:51 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:42:29 +0100 > > > > Hans wrote: > > > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > > > > > Then mount the partition, where /var re

Re: var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread David Wright
On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 15:42:29 (+0100), Hans wrote: > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you do > not need (for example old packages). Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought that one could del

Re: var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 12:20:51 -0300, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:42:29 +0100 > Hans wrote: > > > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you > > do > > not need (for exa

Re: var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread Ron
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 15:42:29 +0100 Hans wrote: > try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. > > Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you do > not need (for example old packages). Or just su to root in a console, cd to /var/cache/apt/archi

Re: var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Nov 2015 at 09:08:35 -0500, Whit Hansell wrote: > my Var directory is 100% full. I have googled abouit it and reallly haven't > gotten a decent idea of what I can safely delete from var. I have bot tmp > and cache subdirectories and can easily fump the tmp but it is very small > and won

Re: var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
To see how much is used where order as super user du /var -hx --max-depth=1 Do you have mount points in /var ? Regards, jvp.

Re: var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread Hans
Hi Whit, try to boot from a live system like Knoppix or any other live-cd. Then mount the partition, where /var resides and you can delete files you do not need (for example old packages). If your filesystem is not encrypted, then youz might want to enlarge the partition without any loss. You

Re: var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:08:35 -0500 Whit Hansell wrote: Hello Whit, >is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with >knowledge give me the subdirectories in var/cache that I can empty to >get a reasonable amount of free space? Running Jessie on an amd64 box. Look at /var/c

var is full...

2015-11-18 Thread Whit Hansell
Hey y'all, my Var directory is 100% full. I have googled abouit it and reallly haven't gotten a decent idea of what I can safely delete from var. I have bot tmp and cache subdirectories and can easily fump the tmp but it is very small and won't really give me much room. Can anyone with knowl

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-29 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve t

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 05:14:36PM -0500, Patrick Albuquerque wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 12:08:54AM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:28:31PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > > > Hello, > > > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > > >

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Patrick Albuquerque
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve the problem temporari

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Gerard Robin
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:28:31PM +0200, Frank Gevaerts wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > > > Hello, > > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Tim Kelley
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve the problem temporari

Re: partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:07:03PM +0100, Gerard Robin wrote: > > Hello, > I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. > When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't > download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. > To solve the problem temporari

partition /var is full

2004-09-28 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I have a problem with my partition /var which seems to be too small. When it is full my system deosn't work fine, for example: fetchmail can't download my messages in /var/mail/mylogin. To solve the problem temporarily, I have removed the biggest files in /var/log/. How can I solve this p