Why I hate updates ... Thanks Michael ...

[joe at actionline.com]

Thanks Michael.

Yes, I do realize that I probably need to build a
completely different system, but for now, I just
have to find ways to keep my old system working.

Now, after a reboot, I have most everything working
again, but for now, I mainly just need to find out
how to unlock Libre Office documents.


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On 2021-03-13 at 1:58 pm, Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> 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 at 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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