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Not sure if I can be helped here of if I need to go to Ubuntu but I have had a lot of help on this forum. I have a Ubuntu server dedicated to plex but I keep getting errors about there not being enough space (there is plenty) and I cannot update or play videos. When I go to update it says “unable to create ‘/var/lib/dpkg/updates/tmp. I’ : no space left in device”
Dante,
Please do the following:
sudo sh
systemctl stop plexmediaserver
systemctl disable plexmediaserver
df -h
Let me see the output of that please
We can recover from this and move your Plex metadata to /home where there is more room
UNLESS the whole disk is full.
The whole disk should not be full… I currently have two drives - one a 64 gb SSD and then a 3 or 4 tb drive attached which won’t let me put any files on either
# systemctl stop plexmediaserver
# systemctl disable plexmediaserver
Removed /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/plexmediaserver.service.
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs 766M 3.1M 763M 1% /run
/dev/sda1 52G 25G 24G 52% /
tmpfs 3.8G 8.0K 3.8G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0 92M 92M 0 100% /snap/core/6531
/dev/loop1 15M 15M 0 100% /snap/gnome-characters/206
/dev/loop3 2.3M 2.3M 0 100% /snap/gnome-calculator/260
/dev/loop2 3.8M 3.8M 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/77
/dev/loop4 54M 54M 0 100% /snap/core18/782
/dev/loop5 15M 15M 0 100% /snap/gnome-characters/254
/dev/loop7 1.0M 1.0M 0 100% /snap/gnome-logs/61
/dev/loop6 54M 54M 0 100% /snap/core18/941
/dev/loop9 91M 91M 0 100% /snap/core/6405
/dev/loop11 3.8M 3.8M 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/57
/dev/loop10 4.2M 4.2M 0 100% /snap/gnome-calculator/352
/dev/loop8 90M 90M 0 100% /snap/core/6673
/dev/loop12 35M 35M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/818
/dev/loop14 141M 141M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/82
/dev/loop13 141M 141M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/78
/dev/loop15 152M 152M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/36
/dev/loop16 36M 36M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1198
/dev/loop17 1.0M 1.0M 0 100% /snap/gnome-logs/57
/dev/loop19 13M 13M 0 100% /snap/gnome-characters/139
/dev/loop18 15M 15M 0 100% /snap/gnome-logs/45
/dev/loop20 141M 141M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/74
/dev/loop21 35M 35M 0 100% /snap/gtk-common-themes/1122
/dev/sdb1 2.7T 1.3T 1.4T 48% /disks/nas
/dev/loop23 3.8M 3.8M 0 100% /snap/gnome-system-monitor/70
/dev/loop24 144M 144M 0 100% /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/23
/dev/loop22 4.2M 4.2M 0 100% /snap/gnome-calculator/406
tmpfs 766M 108K 766M 1% /run/user/1000
Moderator Edit: Legibility
I think I know what it’s doing. Snaps have made a mess.
Please check one more thing for me?
df -h /
I suspect that’s the culprit
# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 52G 25G 24G 52% /
Are you using Plex in a SNAP? or standalone? It looks standalone?
I believe stand alone… not really sure what a snap is
Do you feel comfortable with this?
We “Backup” from /var/lib/plexmediaserver
We “Restore” to /home/plexdata
We next “Customize” your config to point to the new location.
If not 100% comfortable, I’ll help. it’s easy
Will that also fix the other issues I have been having with ubuntu (i.e. my storage drive saying its full, not being able to install updates because drives are full, etc)
I got this far
cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver # tar cfz /nas/tmp/PlexBackup.tar.gz ./Library tar (child): /nas/tmp/PlexBackup.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: /nas/tmp/PlexBackup.tar.gz: Cannot write: Broken pipe tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
How about this;
sudo sh
mkdir /home/plexdata
cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver
tar cfz /home/plexdata/Library.tar ./Library
That will put the copy on your local HD, in the new location, for when we unpack it there.
No space issue
mkdir /home/plexdata # cd /var/lib/plexmediaserver # tar cfz /home/plexdata/Library.tar ./Library tar (child): /home/plexdata/Library.tar: Cannot open: No space left on device tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: /home/plexdata/Library.tar: Cannot write: Broken pipe tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
if this
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 52G 25G 24G 52% /
Then how big?
du -ms /var/lib/plexmediaserver
Also
ls -la /home/plexdata
du -ms /var/lib/plexmediaserver 3196 /var/lib/plexmediaserver santo@Media-Server:~$ ls -la /home/plexdata total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 23 21:04 . drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Apr 23 21:04 ..
that makes NO sense. you have 50 GB free and only 3 GB in use
That’s what I thought but figured I was missing something
ok… let’s try this:
sudo mount
let’s see what it has mounted and where.
/$ sudo mount sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=3889164k,nr_inodes=972291,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=783888k,mode=755) /dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k) tmpfs on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,mode=755) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/unified type cgroup2 (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,xattr,name=systemd) pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/perf_event type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,perf_event) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpuset type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpuset) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/devices type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,devices) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/net_cls,net_prio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,net_cls,net_prio) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/memory type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,memory) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/hugetlb type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,hugetlb) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/blkio type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,blkio) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu,cpuacct type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,cpu,cpuacct) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/pids type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,pids) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/rdma type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,rdma) cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup/freezer type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,freezer) systemd-1 on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type autofs (rw,relatime,fd=32,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=3181) mqueue on /dev/mqueue type mqueue (rw,relatime) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw,relatime) hugetlbfs on /dev/hugepages type hugetlbfs (rw,relatime,pagesize=2M) fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw,relatime) configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/core_6531.snap on /snap/core/6531 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-characters_206.snap on /snap/gnome-characters/206 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-calculator_260.snap on /snap/gnome-calculator/260 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-system-monitor_77.snap on /snap/gnome-system-monitor/77 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/core18_782.snap on /snap/core18/782 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-characters_254.snap on /snap/gnome-characters/254 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-logs_61.snap on /snap/gnome-logs/61 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/core18_941.snap on /snap/core18/941 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/core_6405.snap on /snap/core/6405 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-system-monitor_57.snap on /snap/gnome-system-monitor/57 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-calculator_352.snap on /snap/gnome-calculator/352 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/core_6673.snap on /snap/core/6673 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gtk-common-themes_818.snap on /snap/gtk-common-themes/818 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-3-26-1604_82.snap on /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/82 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-3-26-1604_78.snap on /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/78 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-3-28-1804_36.snap on /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/36 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gtk-common-themes_1198.snap on /snap/gtk-common-themes/1198 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-logs_57.snap on /snap/gnome-logs/57 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-characters_139.snap on /snap/gnome-characters/139 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-logs_45.snap on /snap/gnome-logs/45 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-3-26-1604_74.snap on /snap/gnome-3-26-1604/74 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gtk-common-themes_1122.snap on /snap/gtk-common-themes/1122 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /dev/sdb1 on /disks/nas type ext4 (rw,relatime,data=ordered) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-system-monitor_70.snap on /snap/gnome-system-monitor/70 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-3-28-1804_23.snap on /snap/gnome-3-28-1804/23 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) /var/lib/snapd/snaps/gnome-calculator_406.snap on /snap/gnome-calculator/406 type squashfs (ro,nodev,relatime,x-gdu.hide) tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=783884k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000) gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
Do you have a quota enabled?
Your /var is in the root
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered)
You don’t have a /home partition.
The only “No Space” has to be a quota
OR
damaged filesystem
I don’t believe I have a quota… I think everything has always been in root the only folder I have had in /home is /santo
