/tmp locked? - ran out of space
by mogmog from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6CF1A)
Hello, whilst working on my PC (Linux mint 20.1) I got a message (Filesystem Root has only .... remaining) that disk space was low. Next thing I knew everything was seizing up.
I moved lots of data onto other hard disks, but nothing seems to make any difference.
It now seems (also?) that my /tmp is unavailable to programs - various software can't write temporary files (eg QGIS, Thunderbird starts up in default each time etc etc).
As always, these things occur when there's a deadline and next week is full on for me.
I've spent 5 hours reading stuff but they go in too deep with terminal commands and I can't risk running delete commands without really knowing what I'm doing.
I would be very grateful for any help. Many thanks
PS I have loads of storage (1tb + 500gb) but I didn't set things up well when I added them.
I would be grateful for any help on (a) how to resolve the /tmp situation and (b) to possibly move a partition from the the smaller NVME to the larger one? Thank you.
and
UPDATE I managed to get Virtulabox running (had lost machines) and have removed W10 which has given me some breathing space and has allowed programs to write to /tmp.
I moved lots of data onto other hard disks, but nothing seems to make any difference.
It now seems (also?) that my /tmp is unavailable to programs - various software can't write temporary files (eg QGIS, Thunderbird starts up in default each time etc etc).
As always, these things occur when there's a deadline and next week is full on for me.
I've spent 5 hours reading stuff but they go in too deep with terminal commands and I can't risk running delete commands without really knowing what I'm doing.
I would be very grateful for any help. Many thanks
PS I have loads of storage (1tb + 500gb) but I didn't set things up well when I added them.
I would be grateful for any help on (a) how to resolve the /tmp situation and (b) to possibly move a partition from the the smaller NVME to the larger one? Thank you.
and
UPDATE I managed to get Virtulabox running (had lost machines) and have removed W10 which has given me some breathing space and has allowed programs to write to /tmp.