[SOLVED] Update: No space left on device - HELPat

[fraksken]

Hello,

My Proxmox box (Debian 7.8) needs updating, but whenever I want to do anything, I get the error that my device is full:

Preparing to replace multiarch-support 2.13-38+deb7u7 (using .../multiarch-support_2.13-38+deb7u8_amd64.deb) ...Unpacking replacement multiarch-support ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
/usr/bin/mandb: can't write to /var/cache/man/201484: No space left on device
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/smbclient_2%3a3.6.6-6+deb7u5_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The disks, however, are not full. (only 200GB of 2TB used)

There are also a lot of Inodes free:

:/# df -iFilesystem                 Inodes  IUsed     IFree IUse% Mounted on
udev                      4102706    760   4101946    1% /dev
tmpfs                     4105235    599   4104636    1% /run
/dev/md2                  1281120  75674   1205446    6% /
tmpfs                     4105235     16   4105219    1% /run/lock
tmpfs                     4105235     38   4105197    1% /run/shm
/dev/mapper/pve-data    120487936 442390 120045546    1% /var/lib/vz
/dev/fuse                   10000     39      9961    1% /etc/pve
/var/lib/vz/private/104   6400000  34064   6365936    1% /var/lib/vz/root/104
tmpfs                      524288     36    524252    1% /var/lib/vz/root/104/run
tmpfs                      524288      1    524287    1% /var/lib/vz/root/104/run/lock
tmpfs                      524288      2    524286    1% /var/lib/vz/root/104/run/shm
/var/lib/vz/private/106 120108922  63376 120045546    1% /var/lib/vz/root/106
tmpfs                      524288     34    524254    1% /var/lib/vz/root/106/run
tmpfs                      524288      2    524286    1% /var/lib/vz/root/106/run/lock
tmpfs                      524288      2    524286    1% /var/lib/vz/root/106/run/shm

I do note that one of the 1K-block partitions is full:

# df -lFilesystem               1K-blocks     Used  Available Use% Mounted on
udev                         10240        0      10240   0% /dev
tmpfs                      3284188      376    3283812   1% /run
/dev/md2                  20317384 20302064          0 100% /
tmpfs                         5120        0       5120   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                      6987380    18648    6968732   1% /run/shm
/dev/mapper/pve-data    1912594928 47419248 1768786560   3% /var/lib/vz
/dev/fuse                    30720       24      30696   1% /etc/pve
/var/lib/vz/private/104   33554432  1193480   32360952   4% /var/lib/vz/root/104
tmpfs                       419432       52     419380   1% /var/lib/vz/root/104/run
tmpfs                         5120        0       5120   0% /var/lib/vz/root/104/run/lock
tmpfs                       943700        0     943700   0% /var/lib/vz/root/104/run/shm
/var/lib/vz/private/106  838860800  9796884  829063916   2% /var/lib/vz/root/106
tmpfs                       419432       44     419388   1% /var/lib/vz/root/106/run
tmpfs                         5120        0       5120   0% /var/lib/vz/root/106/run/lock
tmpfs                       943700        0     943700   0% /var/lib/vz/root/106/run/shm

How can I clear this?

 

[fraksken]

Great. So my / partition is full:

:/# df -hFilesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.2G 376K 3.2G 1% /run
/dev/md2 20G 20G 0 100% /
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 6.7G 19M 6.7G 1% /run/shm
/dev/mapper/pve-data 1.8T 46G 1.7T 3% /var/lib/vz
/dev/fuse 30M 24K 30M 1% /etc/pve
/var/lib/vz/private/104 32G 1.2G 31G 4% /var/lib/vz/root/104
tmpfs 410M 52K 410M 1% /var/lib/vz/root/104/run
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /var/lib/vz/root/104/run/lock
tmpfs 922M 0 922M 0% /var/lib/vz/root/104/run/shm
/var/lib/vz/private/106 800G 9.4G 791G 2% /var/lib/vz/root/106
tmpfs 410M 44K 410M 1% /var/lib/vz/root/106/run
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /var/lib/vz/root/106/run/lock
tmpfs 922M 0 922M 0% /var/lib/vz/root/106/run/shm

I'm looking for a fix and will reply to this thread if I find one.

What is an acceptable size for the root partition?

 

[fraksken]

found the problem.
on /mnt/ftp_backup there was a folder mounted to an FTP store. For one or the other reason, the system writes to the local disk as well as the FTP share...
Topic closed.