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I can make new files, folders and install new software but I can't download files from the internet (Using Iceweasel(Firefox) and Midori). When installing new software at some point it says something like "man.db: not enough memory". Also when starting the Pi, "[warn] Root filesystem full...warning" comes up. I use rasbian wheezy with a 16GB SD card. I always use root user. Any ideas what the problem is?

df command output:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 15328248 15010504 0 100% / /dev/root 15328248 15010504 0 100% / devtmpfs 53720 0 53720 0% /dev tmpfs 12396 252 12144 3% /run tmpfs 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock tmpfs 24780 0 24780 0% /run/shm /dev/mmcblk0p1 57288 18888 38400 33% /boot tmpfs 24780 8 24772 1% /tmp
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    could you please show us the output of df command ? Commented Aug 11, 2013 at 4:26
  • @lenik Added ---- Commented Aug 13, 2013 at 13:01

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you may try this script to find the largest existing files on your file system, helps a lot to answer the question: "where all my free space went?" =)

#!/usr/bin/env python # # $Id: largefiles.py 272 2013-02-07 22:30:48Z lenik $ import os import sys if len(sys.argv) < 2: path = '.' else: path = sys.argv[1] skip = len(path) flist = [] for root,dirs,files in os.walk( path ) : for name in files : fname = os.path.join( root, name ) try : fsize = os.path.getsize( fname ) if fname.startswith( path + '/' ) : # check for '~/..' fname = fname[skip+1:] if fsize > 20000000 : flist.append( ( fsize, fname ) ) except: pass for (s,n) in reversed( sorted( flist )) : print s, n
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  • Thanks a lot! I found out the reason I had no free space was because when I deleted stuff, it went into a bin, and wasn't actually removed from my Pi! Commented Aug 15, 2013 at 20:01
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One thing that that I can think of is that you have not expanded your filesystem to fit your entire SD card. To do this:

$ sudo raspi-config

Select the "Expand File-System" option. Then select finish and reboot.

Also, have you tried using wget to download the files you want? In my opinion, it is a better option to downloading something then using Midori or some other web-browser. It's very simple to use as well:

$ wget http://url-to-some-file.tar
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  • I had already expanded the file-system, and I'll try to use wget but I can't when the download is a button Commented Aug 10, 2013 at 18:24
  • You can copy the URL from the button though by right-clicking and then selecting the copy option. Commented Aug 10, 2013 at 18:49
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Because on ext filesystems 'root' user has extra %5 reserved space on filesystem while formatting. Although 'df' command show as %100, you looks you're using that reserve now. If that reserved space filled up you will not create file/dir on filesystem neither.

You can check folder sizes by that command:
du -h / --max-depth 1

You will get output like this:

-# du -h / --max-depth 1
7.5M /etc
16K /lost+found
1.1G /data
8.8M /bin
1.5G /lib
873M /var

So then narrow your search and look for other folders such as /data in my example. Delete some files on your filesystem to get free space.

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