Not enough disk space for apt upgrade on Beaglebone AI

Question

I face a not enough space left on device after attempting to do sudo apt upgrade on the device.

the same scenario happen if i try to update the cloud9 by pulling by following example in https://beagleboard.org/upgrade

i also try to follow https://www.hackster.io/175809/tidl-on-beaglebone-ai-1ee263 but all of these will fail at the same 'not enough space scenario'

originally i thought the 8GB sd card i use is really insufficient then i change to a much bigger one and realize problem persists....then it must be something wrong

below is my sudo apt update and the subsequent sudo apt upgrade procedure

debian@beaglebone:/var/lib/cloud9$ sudo apt update

[sudo] password for debian:

Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease

Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease [91.0 kB]

Get:3 http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian stretch InRelease [3,064 B]

Get:4 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease [94.3 kB]

Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release [118 kB]

Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release.gpg [2,365 B]

Get:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates/main armhf Packages [27.3 kB]

Get:8 http://repos.rcn-ee.com/debian stretch/main armhf Packages [1,066 kB]

Get:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main armhf Packages [484 kB]

Get:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/contrib armhf Packages [1,764 B]

Get:11 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/non-free armhf Packages [1,272 B]

Get:12 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/main armhf Packages [6,915 kB]

Get:13 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/contrib armhf Packages [42.1 kB]

Get:14 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch/non-free armhf Packages [59.7 kB]

Fetched 8,906 kB in 17s (511 kB/s)

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

56 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them.

debian@beaglebone:/var/lib/cloud9$ sudo apt upgrade

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

Calculating upgrade... Done

The following packages have been kept back:

chromium

The following packages will be upgraded:

base-files bb-cape-overlays bonescript e2fslibs e2fsprogs gpiod libcomerr2 libcpupower1 libcups2 libexpat1 libexpat1-dev libgd3 libglib2.0-0 libgpiod2 libicu57 libiio-utils libiio0

libldap-2.4-2 libldap-common libmariadbclient18 libnghttp2-14 libnginx-mod-http-auth-pam libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext libnginx-mod-http-echo libnginx-mod-http-geoip

libnginx-mod-http-image-filter libnginx-mod-http-subs-filter libnginx-mod-http-upstream-fair libnginx-mod-http-xslt-filter libnginx-mod-mail libnginx-mod-stream libpam-systemd libpq5

libss2 libssl1.0.2 libssl1.1 libsystemd0 libudev-dev libudev1 libxslt1.1 linux-cpupower linux-libc-dev nginx nginx-common nginx-full openssh-client openssh-server openssh-sftp-server

openssl systemd systemd-sysv tzdata udev unzip usbutils

55 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.

Need to get 32.0 MB of archives.

After this operation, 194 kB of additional disk space will be used.

E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.

subsequently i do a fdisk -l for my very huge sd card after reading about https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/debian-26/no-space-left-on-device-880308/ but unsure if i can follow it

here's my fdisk output

debian@beaglebone:/var/lib/cloud9$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 119.3 GiB, 128043712512 bytes, 250085376 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: dos

Disk identifier: 0xf7146e7c

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type

/dev/mmcblk0p1 * 8192 7372799 7364608 3.5G 83 Linux

Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 14.6 GiB, 15678308352 bytes, 30621696 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disklabel type: dos

Disk identifier: 0x209da4b7

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type

/dev/mmcblk1p1 * 8192 30621695 30613504 14.6G 83 Linux

Disk /dev/mmcblk1boot1: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mmcblk1boot0: 4 MiB, 4194304 bytes, 8192 sectors

Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

debian@beaglebone:/var/lib/cloud9$

mp2100 · Accepted Answer

Wei, you had an 8 GB card, but the downloaded image is a 4 GB image. You found the manual instructions to expand the image to fill up your 8 GB card. On that page https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Expanding_File_System_Partition_On_A_microSD at the top, they give the automatic instructions. Existing on the beaglebone, there's a script that does all those steps for you, "grow_partition.sh" you just have to run that script and it's done. On newer Debian system images coming from BeagleBoard.org / Robert Nelson, you can run the script: sudo /opt/scripts/tools/grow_partition.sh

weiwei2 · Answer

i have found this page https://elinux.org/Beagleboard:Expanding_File_System_Partition_On_A_microSD and follow it.

originally, my SD is

/dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 7372799 7364608 3.5G 83 Linux

after the successful repartioning mine is

/dev/mmcblk0p1 8192 15384575 15376384 7.3G 83 Linux

the only difference is that after the step 7, and accept the default options for 2 times, i reach a this, and enter n

Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 3.7 GiB.

Partition #1 contains a ext4 signature.

Do you want to remove the signature? [Y]es/[N]o: n

summary steps

sudo su
fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
d
2
n
p
2
n
w
reboot
sudo su (after reboot is complete)
resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p1

weiwei2 · Answer

it is working.....although i wonder why in the first place the official image is not configured to have sufficient space

clem57 · Answer

I solved this one by the following: Downloaded the latest image for Beagle Bone AI from BeagleBone.org Used Etcher to burn the image to a fairly large SD card. I used a good named brand... Booted the Beagle Bone AI with card inserted. Checked space with df -h Run shell /opt/scripts/tools/grow_partition.sh Reboot BB-AI. Check space again with df -h You should see / expanded to the rest of the card. Run sudo apt update Run sudo apt upgrade Now if you want, flash eMMC. I chose not to do this step. I would be careful since you could run into troubles if the card now exceeds 16 G Enjoy the new and improved Linux!

clem57 · Answer

Whenever you install a program, the packages (.deb files) get stored in /var/cache/apt/archives, which obviously take up space (a lot of space if there are many packages installed).

To get rid of them, use:

sudo apt-get clean

In case you're wondering what is the difference between clean and autoclean, here is what the man page says:

clean: clean clears out the local repository of retrieved package files. It removes everything but the lock file from /var/cache/apt/archives/ and /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/. APT is used as a dselect(1) method, clean is run Those who do not use dselect will likely want to run apt-get clean time to time to free up disk space.

autoclean: Like clean, autoclean clears out the local repository of package files. The difference is that it only removes package files can no longer be downloaded, and are largely useless. This a cache to be maintained over a long period without it out of control. The configuration option Clean-Installed will prevent installed packages from erased if it is set to off.

clem57 · Answer

BTW, I found a way to simulate the clean:

mook@MookPC:~$ apt-get -s clean
NOTE: This is only a simulation!
apt-get needs root privileges for real execution.
Keep also in mind that locking is deactivated,
so don't depend on the relevance to the real current situation!
Del /var/cache/apt/archives/* /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/*
Del /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*
Del /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin

Not enough disk space for apt upgrade on Beaglebone AI

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