[ale] Out of space on root !

[jknapka at earthlink.net (Joseph A Knapka)]

Tom & JaVonn wrote:
> 
> All:
> 
> Building up a recycled PC late last night, I filled up / (lots of space free on /home), but didn't know until this morning when X refused to start.
> 
> Immediately freed up 75 MB, and "apt-get clean" brought it up to 175 MB free, then used Tom's RtBt to scan both partitions for errors --- both came thru clean.
> 
> STILL can't print 'cause lpr.log says "write failed - No space left on device".
> 
> After uninstalling lprng, when reinstalling it refuses to install /etc/lprng/lpr.conf even though it is clearly listed as part of the package.
> 
> ANY WAY TO FIX THIS short of starting over ?  Ten minutes on google produced nothing.

Possibly your problem is that /tmp is on the root partition.
You should instead make a little partition (a couple hundred MB would
probably be enough) and mount it on /tmp. But yes, that will require
you to reinstall, unless you have some tool that will let you
nondestructively repartition.

HTH,

-- Joe
 "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
 sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and the
 leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - J. Knapka

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