I don’t know how the error can be more clear, or more accurate.
Why do you believe you have 100GB of space? The kernel believes you have 8.9GB with 8.2GB free, and it knows better than anyone.
If there’s another disk available to you, it does not appear to be mounted, and even if you do mount it, you’ll need to do something to get it mounted in such a way you can use it normally. If you just put it in some random location in /mnt or whatever, no software will use it.
You also probably can’t just mount it on /home (which would be the usual recommendation if you had a decently sized /, but not enough for your Virtualmin domain users, websites, and email), because databases live in /var/lib, and so you’d still run out of space because 8.9GB is to tiny even for the base OS install, much less for databases and logs and other stuff that lives in /var.
I cleaned the old server to reduce the backup and have now 700Mb tar.gz data. I get a bit further, but it still fails…
Restoring allowed MariaDB hosts ..
Fatal Error!
Restore failed : SQL desc `db` failed : Disk full (/tmp/#sql-temptable-54e-1e6-f1.MAI); waiting for someone to free some space... (errno: 28 "No space left on device")
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/vda4 8.9G 7.4G 1007M 89% /
Seems I need to increase some size, but not sure which and how. Help is very much appreciated.
LVM, if your not used to it, is difficult so if you are unsure on what you are doing it may be worth getting some who is happy with LVM to make the changes for you
Thank you for your reply. Is LVM paid version? I am on the free version and don’t have the option. I see it in “Un-used Modules”, but no install option.
I see Edit Disk Partitions - but no re-size option.
Because /home is on the same partition as /. What is on that windows partition ? Is this a virtual machine running on a windows box or home pc or a linux machine ?
I am not sure why there is anything Windows related. I see /boot/efi/EFI/BOOT/ and /debian/ /boot/grub/ and /lost + found/
/grub/ has Windows files.
I am not sure I should delete anything. I would prefer to enlarge that core folder, or have things run outside of it. Before I had 20Gb and it was enough, now I have 200Gb and problems
One option might be to restore the remaining domain without the actual mailboxes. I am not sure virtualmin can just create the mailboxes without the old data.
/dev/vdb has one lost+found folder and is otherwise empty. This is probably where all mailboxes and sites should go. I do not recall that option when I installed virtualmin (VPS was brand new).
I just installed another virtual server just for testing, I didn’t see any folder options.
How did you create all these partitions? Technically on a 200GB you should only have 2 partitions, one for /boot/efi or /boot and the other for all folders in /
I would recreate this and tell Debian to manually create the partitions for you. This will put all folders into the / and grub boot loader into /boot/efi or /boot depending on your mother board.
I would talk to the company you purchased this from. Ask them why their Debian setup is creating so many unwanted partitions. Unless you have added an additional hard drive that is the /dev/vdb?
Your 200GB Folder showing /data should have everything set up on that drive.
Additional notes:
By the looks of the df output, It is showing you have 2 drives. One is a 10gb and the other is 200gb.
Everything has been installed and setup on the 10gb drive. The OS seems to be taking up all the space of the 10gb drive.
You will need help with the company you purchased this from and have them switch the 200GB drive to show as the main drive before the OS can even install.
