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Re: Upgrade Problem

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David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 17:13:44 (+0000), Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>> On sex, 04 jan 2019, David Wright wrote:
>> > On Fri 04 Jan 2019 at 16:52:45 (+0000), Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>> > > And in this case, the problem is easy to solve:
>> > >   rm /path/to/some/large/files/*
>> > 
>> > Wrong again. The free space on /home is sufficient to hold 10 copies
>> > of the entire / filesystem. And you presuppose that these large files
>> > exist, for which the OP has currently shown no evidence.
>> 
>> The used disk space must be somewhere. But you're right, there is
>> another possibility: lots of small files that together occupy a lot of
>> space.
>
> There's at least one other scenario that it would be worth eliminating
> by checking that this equation is true (allowing for filesystem overheads):
>
>   # du -shx
>         +
>   $ df's Available
>         ≃
>  partition's size.
>
> This checks whether the mountpoints for /var and so on had files in
> them before the partitions were mounted. These files would consume
> filespace but not be detected by du.

  very good points i hadn't considered.

  i do know it happens.

  thanks for the reminder.  :)


  songbird

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Re: Upgrade Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-01-04 17:20 +0100
  Re: Upgrade Problem steve <dlist@bluewin.ch> - 2019-01-04 17:50 +0100
    Re: Upgrade Problem Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2019-01-04 18:00 +0100
      Re: Upgrade Problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-04 18:10 +0100
        Re: Upgrade Problem Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2019-01-04 18:20 +0100
          Re: Upgrade Problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-04 21:50 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Problem Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 22:20 +0100
              Re: Upgrade Problem songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-04 23:10 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 23:40 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-05 15:50 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-01-05 10:20 +0100
              Re: Upgrade Problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-05 02:10 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Problem songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-04 23:10 +0100
      Re: Upgrade Problem Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2019-01-04 18:10 +0100
    Re: Upgrade Problem Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2019-01-04 18:20 +0100
      Re: Upgrade Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-01-04 19:00 +0100
        Re: Upgrade Problem Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-01-04 19:20 +0100
          Re: Upgrade Problem "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2019-01-04 20:10 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Problem Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-01-04 22:10 +0100
            Re: Upgrade Problem David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-01-05 02:30 +0100
              Re: Upgrade Problem Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2019-01-05 04:20 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <eduardo@kalinowski.com.br> - 2019-01-05 10:30 +0100
              Re: Upgrade Problem rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-01-05 16:30 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2019-01-07 04:00 +0100
                Re: Upgrade Problem mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-01-08 15:40 +0100
  Re: Upgrade Problem songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-01-04 19:30 +0100

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