apt-get update/autoremove failed - no space left

[nimoinau]

hello
i got a problem with proxmox 6.4.8
i can not start my vm, not make apt-get update, or autoremove because it can not create temporary file due to no space left
but when i make a df -h, i do not see that the system is full
root@proxmox:/# df -h Sys. de fichiers Taille Utilisé Dispo Uti% Monté sur udev 7,8G 0 7,8G 0% /dev tmpfs 1,6G 9,2M 1,6G 1% /run /dev/mapper/pve-root 28G 6,2G 20G 25% / tmpfs 7,8G 43M 7,7G 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 7,8G 0 7,8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/fuse 30M 36K 30M 1% /etc/pve tmpfs 1,6G 0 1,6G 0% /run/user/1000

any ideas how to fix it ?

 

[wits-zach]

I believe I am running into the same problem, and I believe you may be out of inodes. Do this:

cd /
du --inodes -xS | sort -n

At the bottom of that list, do you have a large number?

 

[nimoinau]

500 ./usr/include/linux 590 ./usr/share/nmap/scripts 780 ./usr/share/man/man3 809 ./usr/share/bash-completion/completions 874 ./usr/share/man/man8 946 ./usr/bin 1071 ./usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu 1176 ./usr/share/man/man1 1323 ./var/cache/apt/archives 4249 ./var/lib/dpkg/info 1714383 ./var/lib/samba/private/msg.sock

here is the result

 

[wits-zach]

You are afflicted like many others:

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/an-help-to-free-inode-usage-on-my-servers.69730/

You need to clean out those inodes from Samba.

 

[nimoinau]

to be sure to well understand,
can i safely delete all the files in /var/lib/samba/private/msg.sock ?

 

[wits-zach]

I had to start another thread about inode issues (https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/excessive-inode-consumption-and-etc-lvm-archive.91868/), so I defer to people who are dealing with Samba inode consumption directly.

My research said deleting my .vg files in /etc/lvm/archive was safe; I cannot speak for Samba.

 

[nimoinau]

I deleted some log files in /var/log and i was able to make the actions which do not worked before.
Vms are now started, update is OK

if someone can just confim me i can delete files in samba directory safely, it would be fine.
thanks for your help