This is why I stopped using physical partitions and LVM instead entirely.
If you fill your physical partition, it really doesn't like it, and all
hell breaks loose, as you see. Boot from a boot cd, clear some space, and
reboot.
Start with "sudo du -h --max-depth=1", figure out what is filling your
disk, and delete some. Reboot. Usually logs, updates, packages, etc cruft
- kill it all.
When it's sane, move to a more agreeable FS structure, use LVM, I can fill
a disk and stay up, much less impact if/when this occurs.
I break /var and /var/log into separate partitions always, these are
typically what fill and break. Keep them separate with LVM's, much happier
to recover if any one fills up. I normally keep /usr with debians separate
too, but arch installs hate this. Also I keep /home separate, as I fill
this commonly, which breaks anything running in userland if/when occurring.
Funny, I do this because this is how we installed solaris this way with
slices like +20-some years ago to not blow up, but over-simplification
these days ignores fun facts like these.
-mb
On Sat, Mar 13, 2021 at 12:57 PM joe--- via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> Yesterday, I did another update on my Linux Mint 17 system
> and today numerous things that previously worked fine
> no longer work, including Libre Office.
>
> And, I now see that all the space on sda1 is filled
> so I have zero space available.
>
> Also, I tried to download a pdf file which should have
> gone to sda6 and I got a message "No space available."
>
> What can I do to remedy this nightmare?
>
> I am willing to pay for help if one of my PLUG
> friends would be willing to help me fix this.
>
> Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> udev 4006644 4 4006640 1% /dev
> tmpfs 805480 1560 803920 1% /run
> /dev/sda1 19091584 18141912 0 100% /
> none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
> none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
> none 4027392 25920 4001472 1% /run/shm
> none 102400 20 102380 1% /run/user
> /dev/sda6 101787928 33524948 63069256 35% /home
>
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