[SOLVED] No space left on device on apt-get update

apmuthu

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Which device and how to increase space? Very cryptic indeed.

PVE 6.4-15
pve-manager/6.4-15/af7986e6 (running kernel: 5.4.203-1-pve)

Code:
# apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
Get:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease [56.6 kB]
Err:2 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease
  Error writing to output file - write (28: No space left on device) [IP: 199.232.22.132 80]
Err:1 http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster InRelease
  Splitting up /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_InRelease into data and signature failed
Hit:3 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster InRelease
Err:3 http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster InRelease
  Splitting up /var/lib/apt/lists/download.proxmox.com_debian_pve_dists_buster_InRelease into data and signature failed
Get:4 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease [34.8 kB]
Err:4 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease
  Error writing to output file - write (28: No space left on device) [IP: 199.232.22.132 80]
Reading package lists... Done
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://ftp.debian.org/debian buster InRelease: Splitting up /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_InRelease into data and signature failed
W: An error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not updated and the previous index files will be used. GPG error: http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve buster InRelease: Splitting up /var/lib/apt/lists/download.proxmox.com_debian_pve_dists_buster_InRelease into data and signature failed
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/buster/InRelease  Splitting up /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.debian.org_debian_dists_buster_InRelease into data and signature failed
W: Failed to fetch http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/buster-updates/InRelease  Error writing to output file - write (28: No space left on device) [IP: 199.232.22.132 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://security.debian.org/dists/buster/updates/InRelease  Error writing to output file - write (28: No space left on device) [IP: 199.232.22.132 80]
W: Failed to fetch http://download.proxmox.com/debian/pve/dists/buster/InRelease  Splitting up /var/lib/apt/lists/download.proxmox.com_debian_pve_dists_buster_InRelease into data and signature failed
W: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

The /etc/mtab is:
Code:
# cat /etc/mtab
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,relatime 0 0
udev /dev devtmpfs rw,nosuid,relatime,size=16353596k,nr_inodes=4088399,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000 0 0
tmpfs /run tmpfs rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=3276316k,mode=755 0 0
/dev/mapper/pve-root / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
tmpfs /run/lock tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k 0 0
tmpfs /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755 0 0
cgroup2 /sys/fs/cgroup/unified cgroup2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd 0 0
pstore /sys/fs/pstore pstore rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
efivarfs /sys/firmware/efi/efivars efivarfs rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime 0 0
none /sys/fs/bpf bpf rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/pids cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/devices cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/memory cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset 0 0
cgroup /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event cgroup rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event 0 0
systemd-1 /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc autofs rw,relatime,fd=33,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=18988 0 0
mqueue /dev/mqueue mqueue rw,relatime 0 0
hugetlbfs /dev/hugepages hugetlbfs rw,relatime,pagesize=2M 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw,relatime 0 0
sunrpc /run/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw,relatime 0 0
configfs /sys/kernel/config configfs rw,relatime 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw,relatime 0 0
/dev/sda2 /boot/efi vfat rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro 0 0
lxcfs /var/lib/lxcfs fuse.lxcfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other 0 0
/dev/fuse /etc/pve fuse rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other 0 0
tracefs /sys/kernel/debug/tracing tracefs rw,relatime 0 0
binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw,relatime 0 0
tmpfs /run/user/0 tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=3276316k,mode=700 0 0

The /etc/fstab is:
Code:
# cat /etc/fstab
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/pve/root / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=E3BC-3EEE /boot/efi vfat defaults 0 1
/dev/pve/swap none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

The df -h is:
Code:
:/# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev                   16G     0   16G   0% /dev
tmpfs                 3.2G  306M  2.9G  10% /run
/dev/mapper/pve-root   94G   90G     0 100% /
tmpfs                  16G   37M   16G   1% /dev/shm
tmpfs                 5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                  16G     0   16G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2             511M  312K  511M   1% /boot/efi
/dev/fuse              30M   20K   30M   1% /etc/pve
tmpfs                 3.2G     0  3.2G   0% /run/user/0
 
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