[ale] Out of space on root !

[Tom & JaVonn]

Ben:

Sorry, but only / and /home are there.  df -i  shows only 24 % of inodes used on /

With a huge drive I might have guessed at a value for /tmp, but with 3.2 GB I only aimed for keeping user data separate.  Live and learn ?

Thanks,
Tom

On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:31:31 -0400
Benjamin Scherrey <scherrey at proteus-tech.com> wrote:

> Just a guess but you might have a directory (check /tmp or /var/spool (or wherever your spool is)) 
> with too many entries in it even though the files take very little room. I don't know what the limits are 
> under ext2 but that would be the kind of behaviour I would expect. Only printing doesn't work? "/" 
> & "/home" are your only partitions? You don't have "/var" or "/boot" as separate mount points?
> 
> 	good luck,
> 
> 		Ben Scherrey
> 
> 8/15/2002 2:58:02 PM, Tom & JaVonn <pairoftwins at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> >All:
> >
> >Building up a recycled PC late last night, I filled up / (lots of space free on /home), but didn't know 
> until this morning when X refused to start.
> >
> >Immediately freed up 75 MB, and "apt-get clean" brought it up to 175 MB free, then used Tom's 
> RtBt to scan both partitions for errors --- both came thru clean.
> >
> >STILL can't print 'cause lpr.log says "write failed - No space left on device".
> >
> >After uninstalling lprng, when reinstalling it refuses to install /etc/lprng/lpr.conf even though it is 
> clearly listed as part of the package.
> >
> >ANY WAY TO FIX THIS short of starting over ?  Ten minutes on google produced nothing.
> >
> >Debian stable with 3.2 GB HDD:
> >
> >Ext2 /
> >Ext2 /home
> 
> 
> 
> 

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