I'm a Windows guy but our Linux guy is out, so please excuse my ignorance here.
I have a server running 20.04 and it states that I have a lot of updates to apply. When I run the command sudo apt-get updates, it rolls through the updates and then errors out "Error writing to the output file - write (28: No Space left on device)
When I run df -H I see this:
administrator@ntpjjc1:~$ sudo df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /dev
tmpfs 413M 1.3M 412M 1% /run
/dev/sda2 42G 8.3G 32G 21% /
tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.3M 0 5.3M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 2.1G 0 2.1G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda8 8.9G 3.0M 8.5G 1% /home
/dev/sda4 2.1G 1.9G 37M 99% /var
/dev/sda3 512M 70k 474M 1% /tmp
/dev/loop0 59M 59M 0 100% /snap/core18/2538
/dev/loop1 59M 59M 0 100% /snap/core18/2785
/dev/loop2 67M 67M 0 100% /snap/core20/1695
/dev/loop6 56M 56M 0 100% /snap/snapd/19361
/dev/loop5 97M 97M 0 100% /snap/lxd/24061
/dev/loop3 97M 97M 0 100% /snap/lxd/23991
/dev/loop4 67M 67M 0 100% /snap/core20/1891
/dev/sda6 5.3G 74M 4.9G 2% /var/log
/dev/sda5 2.1G 33k 2.0G 1% /var/tmp
/dev/sda7 2.1G 529k 2.0G 1% /var/log/audit
tmpfs 413M 0 413M 0% /run/user/1000
Ok, it looks as though /var is the issue...
When I run sudo du /var -h dl I see that /var/lib/snapd is 1.4G in size and that /var/lib/snapd/snaps is taking up 712M.
When I try to run sudo apt upgrade I receive the following error message: "You might want to run apt --fix-broken install to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies:"
When I run sudo apt --fix broken install I receive the following error: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives
administrator@ntpjjc1:~$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
linux-generic linux-headers-5.4.0-150 linux-headers-5.4.0-150-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-5.4.0-150-generic linux-image-generic
linux-modules-5.4.0-150-generic linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-150-generic open-vm-tools
Suggested packages:
fdutils linux-doc | linux-source-5.4.0 linux-tools open-vm-tools-desktop
The following NEW packages will be installed:
linux-headers-5.4.0-150 linux-headers-5.4.0-150-generic linux-image-5.4.0-150-generic linux-modules-5.4.0-150-generic
linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-150-generic
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-generic linux-headers-generic linux-image-generic open-vm-tools
4 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 197 not upgraded.
5 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 77.9 MB of archives.
After this operation, 380 MB of additional disk space will be used.
E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
And finally, when I run sudo du /var/cache/apt/archives/ -h
dministrator@ntpjjc1:~$ sudo du /var/cache/apt/archives/ -h
4.0K /var/cache/apt/archives/partial
20K /var/cache/apt/archives/
So, my question is, how do I free up space so that I can install updates?
I have run the following commands:
sudo apt clean
sudo apt autoclean
sudo apt autoremove
When I run sudo apt autoremove I go back to the broken dependencies error mentioned above.
I seem to be in a circle but not sure what commands will work to break this cycle.
Thanks!
-Mike
