not sufficient free space in /var

[yhotg]

this is a little wierd but that is my main problem with the update...
any ideas?
i tried to get a safe upgrade that was just 500 mb (thinking that then the full upgrade would take the 400 mb left for the full upgrade)
but somehow didn't work neither..

thnk

[penguin.ch]

Re: not sufficient free space in /var

Just another one of my well known, well feared "oh so silly" questions:

Did you ever had a look at the results from the console command df -x tmpfs -x usbfs ...?

[yhotg]

Re: not sufficient free space in /var

err... not really
nice command (one day i'll do a list of nice commands like that one... i swear.... one day)

but the thing is i know i don't have space in /var
i just don't know what to do about it... i did sudo apt-get clean
but i really don't know what to do with it.. -

the results:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 5233940 3762764 1205304 76% /
/dev/hdb4 97826 23282 69325 26% /boot
/dev/hdb8 3075504 2914320 4956 100% /home
/dev/hda5 3062380 2858708 203672 94% /media/docs_casa
/dev/hda6 15116836 14299700 49232 100% /media/down
/dev/hdb3 18943504 16693024 1288188 93% /media/down2
/dev/hda7 15124868 13508492 848072 95% /media/musica
/dev/hdb1 4419540 3884180 310852 93% /media/musica2
/dev/hdb9 910803 51041 811167 6% /opt
/dev/hdb5 481764 16284 439778 4% /tmp
/dev/hdb7 963560 219690 692464 25% /var
/dev/hdd 711376 711376 0 100% /media/cdrom0

[penguin.ch]

Re: not sufficient free space in /var

i know i don't have space in /var

Not correct (sorry) ...:

Filesystem Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb8 100% /home
/dev/hdb7 25% /var

/home is "overflowing".

--

Addenum: what's the result from df -h /dev/hdb7 ...?

Maybe it's as simple as the partition being too small for a large update (?).

[yhotg]

Re: not sufficient free space in /var

yes, /home is a problem right now.....
i am a little over the saturated partitions...

u meant that /var is not big enough for the size of the upgrade
i have some 640 mb & the upgrade is 918 mb

any idea if there's something i can do aside of fresh install?
(the cd upgrade is giving me problems too i posted the error message in another post)

[penguin.ch]

Re: not sufficient free space in /var

u meant that /var is not big enough for the size of the upgrade
i have some 640 mb & the upgrade is 918 mb

Gotcha in this case, you may either try to update "in stages" or relocate APT's cache to a larger partition ...

On the long run, however, I'd strongly recommend to reinstall with three partitions: /swap, /root and /home - as you can see from your own system, there is no point in "tattering" the harddisk(s).

[yhotg]

Re: not sufficient free space in /var

ok, then i tried the upgrade in stages and something stopped it. i don't know what it was (was late lat night)

about moving APT's cache i didn't knew it was possible... in that case why i can move something else out of /var?

how i move those things?

3 partitions? but i thought, since breezy that it was better this way.....
weird

[penguin.ch]

Re: not sufficient free space in /var

about moving APT's cache i didn't knew it was possible

Most people do not it's not exactly a simple thing - but it can be done ... as exemplified:

# clean up
ROOT $ apt-get clean
# create target
ROOT $ mkdir /apt-cache
ROOT $ mv /var/cache/apt/* /apt-cache
# reconfigure apt
ROOT $ touch /etc/apt/apt.conf
ROOT $ echo 'Dir::Cache "/apt-cache";' >> /etc/apt/apt.conf
# verify changes
ROOT $ apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade