Low disk space on file system message on:
- Elementary: `elementary OS Freya (64-bit)` Built on "Ubuntu 14.04
LTS"
- File manager: `Files 0.2.4`
I want to create more disk space and running the command `df-h` gives the following output:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 1.9G 4.0K 1.9G 1% /dev
tmpfs 390M 1.2M 389M 1% /run
/dev/sda1 19G 18G 637M 97% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 2.0G 78M 1.9G 4% /run/shm
none 100M 44K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sdb1 823G 31G 751G 4% /home
I can't install any programs as there is no space on `/dev/sda1`, so I cannot install a program with a user interface to view files.
Therefore we took the following route:
So, the first disk is very small, and **Plan A** is just to free up enough stuff on it to stop it moaning. **Plan B** would he to move some stuff over to the spacious disk, and link it in. But hopefully A will work!
I reckon there's a lot of unused kernel images in `/boot`, it seeks to get a known weakness with elementary that it doesn't tidy old ones up. I had a web page up that described how to remove them and then update the grub menu so it didn't offer them anymore. But the first command was giving a funny error. I'm following the suggestions on this page:
https://elementaryos.stackexchange.com/questions/95/how-to-remove-old-kernel-versions
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So, we ran this command:
dpkg -l | fgrep linux-image-
It will list a lot of kernel images, most of which you aren't actively using. They're all similarly named, differentiated by a numerical suffix e.g. "`.151`" To find out which one you are using when you boot up, run this:
uname -r
The result was an old kernel image: `3.13.0-44-generic`
We are assuming that any other kernel images newer than this can go:
So starting with `3.13.0-45-generic`
$ sudo su
# apt-get purge linux-image-3.13.0-45-generic
# exit
Running this command produced the following:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
The following packages have unmet de pendencies:
linux-headers-generic : Depends: linux-headers-3.13.0-151-generic but it is not going to be installed
linux-image-extra-3.13.0-45-generic : Depends: linux-image-3.13.0-45-generic but it is not going to be installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).
root@Gary-PC:/home/gary#
I ran `apt-get -f install` but not sure if I should now run `apt-get autoremove` - I guess there will be a net gain of disk space that will accommodate the 13.5MB need for the new installations?
root@Gary-PC:/home/gary# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libgconf2-4 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin
libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libidl-common libidl0
libntdb1 liborbit-2-0 liborbit2 libqpdf13 linux-headers-3.13.0-105
linux-headers-3.13.0-105-generic linux-headers-3.13.0-116
linux-headers-3.13.0-116-generic linux-image-3.13.0-105-generic
linux-image-3.13.0-116-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-105-generic
linux-image-extra-3.13.0-116-generic python-ntdb
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-headers-3.13.0-151-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-headers-3.13.0-151-generic
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/706 kB of archives.
After this operation, 13.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] apt-get -f install
Then running this command:
root@Gary-PC:/home/gary# apt-get autoremove
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
linux-headers-generic : Depends: linux-headers-3.13.0-151-generic but it is not installed
E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
...
root@Gary-PC:/home/gary# apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libbonobo2-0 libbonobo2-common libgconf2-4 libgnome2-0 libgnome2-bin
libgnome2-common libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libidl-common libidl0
libntdb1 liborbit-2-0 liborbit2 libqpdf13 linux-headers-3.13.0-105
linux-headers-3.13.0-105-generic linux-headers-3.13.0-116
linux-headers-3.13.0-116-generic linux-image-3.13.0-105-generic
linux-image-3.13.0-116-generic linux-image-extra-3.13.0-105-generic
linux-image-extra-3.13.0-116-generic python-ntdb
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following extra packages will be installed:
linux-headers-3.13.0-151-generic
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-headers-3.13.0-151-generic
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/706 kB of archives.
After this operation, 13.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
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After this operation, 13.5 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] yes
(Reading database ... 1223843 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../linux-headers-3.13.0-151 generic_3.13.0-151.201_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking linux-headers-3.13.0-151-generic (3.13.0-151.201) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.13.0-151-generic_3.13.0-151.201_amd64.deb (--unpack):
error creating symbolic link `./usr/src/linux-headers-3.13.0-151-generic/include/linux/if_arp.h': No space left on device
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/linux-headers-3.13.0-151-generic_3.13.0-151.201_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
gary@Gary-PC:~$
Now confused. Any help appreciated.