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Okay, so here's the deal:
I've used Ubuntu and Linux Mint for quite awhile, but really wanted to try out ArchLinux, and I must admit I'm amazed.
But suddenly after starting up my Arch Linux (XFCE4 desktop if that helps) crashes at boot. It fails at dbus due to /dev/sda3 is full, but how did that happen? I do certainly not have the machine filled up to the last bit.
When I installed it, and chose the various partition information, I chose ext4 and just used the recommended size for all of them.
My df output from root (can't copy paste as I'm on my laptop, that's why the whitespace fails)
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 7566432 7566432 0 100% /
udev 10240 204 10036 2% /dev
shm 1678728 0 1678728 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 101105 13619 82265 15% /boot
/dev/sda4 472790032 23424668 425348996 6% /home
Any solution?
Last edited by Moller (2010-05-07 12:40:28)
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Clear/move your pacman cache, check for abnormally large log files, etc.
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I do certainly not have the machine filled up to the last bit.
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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 7566432 7566432 0 100% /
There's a serious disagreement here, and I'm going to side with the hardware.
Any solution?
Sure, remove some files. You can use `du -sh /*` (where / is the root of /dev/sda3) to find out which directory is hogging all the space, and drill down, run du again, drill down...
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fsckd:
That gave me approx 4% more space.
falconIndy:
du -sh /*
4.0M /bin
12M /boot
204k /dev
6.1m /etc
23g /home
95m /lib
16k /lost+found
16k /media
4.0k /mnt
246m /opt
du: cannnot access /proc/1850/task/1850/fd/4: no such file or directory
du: cannnot access /proc/1850/task/1850/fdinfo/4: no such file or directory
du: cannnot access /proc/1850/fd/4: no such file or directory
du: cannnot access /proc/1850/fdinfo/4: no such file or directory
0 /proc
532k /root
13m /sbin
12k /srv
0 /sys
12k /tmp
2.6g /usr
3.5g /var
What would you suggest to remove etc?
EDIT: And by the last bit, I mean that it's almost a newly-installed Arch. My old Linux Mint was filled up a lot more, in /home that is.
Last edited by Moller (2010-05-07 12:22:42)
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Check /var/log for runaway logging.
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Check /var/log for runaway logging.
Mind explaining that? I've never messed with these logs.
EDIT:
In /var/log I have 2.7g with du -h
4k ./old
56k ./ConsoleKit
2.7g .
Is it safe to remove all the files in /var/log?
EDIT2:
I have a 2.0g slim.log, damn that's big.
Last edited by Moller (2010-05-07 12:30:33)
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just look inside /var and see what takes up the space? logfiles are in /var/log
edit: du can show file size as well
Last edited by hokasch (2010-05-07 12:30:28)
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just look inside /var and see what takes up the space? logfiles are in /var/log
edit: du can show file size as well
Yeah, I used du -sh * for that, and it seems I have got a 2.0g slim.log file.
I assume it's perfectly safe to remove it?
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yep. you might want to check out why it got spammed, or the same will happen again... if you don't want to open a 2 gig text file, delete it first and check again after a reboot.
one more edit,, - get rid of the remaining 700mb as well
Last edited by hokasch (2010-05-07 12:35:02)
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hokasch: I have noticed SLIM (my login manager) fails to "shutdown" when I shutdown the computer. I'll look into that after removing it.
EDIT1: My use% is now 68%, but isn't that quite much anyway?
Last edited by Moller (2010-05-07 12:34:45)
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My use% is now 68%, but isn't that quite much anyway?
No, it depends on what you have installed.
Edit: If you're really scared, you can always try to make your partition bigger.
Last edited by fsckd (2010-05-07 12:37:48)
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In my opinion, not much. But thanks, it worked out good. I can boot into the machine again (:
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If the problem is solved, mark the thread as solved. Good luck with slim.
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with empty package cache:
du -sh /var/
226M /var/
Yours should still be 1.5g after deleting the 2gb slim log... but at least you know now how to hunt down big files/directories.
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