-Midway through the install / download, I get interrupted with “disk space on partition /run/media/dcnblues/apple\040500 is nearly exhausted.” I canceled the install. Does this mean a bunch of useless data is still on that partition file? I certainly hope not (it doesn’t appear so).
-Opensuse is on a roomy new SSD. Why wouldn’t the installer try to put the app there?
-I have a couple of external drives in the PC. One is named ‘apple 500.’ Does Linux identify that as apple\040500?
-Granted, I have music files on that drive. Is it possible the installer somehow decided that was where to dump a repository?
disk space on partition /run/media/dcnblues/apple\040500 is nearly exhausted
That is only a warning that you have less than 10% (or so) of free disk space on that device and has nothing to do with the Installation of any Package.
That is maybe your Apple device, see inside with dolphin.
I still don’t know if this is a Linux naming conversion. The question in my original post: I have a couple of external drives in the PC. One is named ‘apple 500.’ Does Linux identify that as apple\040500?
And I still don’t understand why it would try to download a repository to that device. Don’t they go into a standard location?
And I still don’t understand why it would try to download a repository to that device. Don’t they go into a standard location?
Where does zypper/Yast say this???
Once more:
The “Error” is no Error, only a warning by the System, not the Package Manager (zypper/Yast).
So zypper/Yast will not install anything to that location.
Most probably yes. As octal 040 is the code for a blank space in ASCII, apparently \040 is used to avoid having blank spaces in that directory name.
Apparently ‘apple 500’ is the label of a file system on (a partition of) a mass storage device. The file system is mounted by the desktop session running for user dcnblues on the directory /run/media/dcnblues/apple\040500.
The message is a bit confusing because it talks about the space “on partition” instead of “on file system”. But that confusion is widespread because often (as in this case) the file system is on a partition and many see them as one and the same (which is NOT true).
And I, like the others, doubt very, very much that any installation from an openSUSE repository will ever try to store data in the directory tree starting at /run/media/dcnblues/apple\040500. So there is no connection between your installation action and the message.
When you install an application the software gets installed in various place off the root directory. The location of the root directory is set by where linux was initially installed to so chances are that it may be installed to the partition with limited space. If you open a console and enter this command it should along with the fdisk output help determine where linux was installed.
df /
On my system the command produces this
df /
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 40185204 14420244 23700580 38% /
Output in a file manager can be a little confusing in some ways. For instance I decided to install /home to a totally separate partition on a different disk. The file manager doesn’t show this. The df command does though
df /home
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 961301640 116288476 844020020 13% /home
Perhaps you chose a default install in terms of the partitioning - which disks to use but you are free to set that up according to your needs when you install. If you don’t set this up yourself the install will make a choice for you. That will usually be fine but there is a need to look at the proposed partitioning and use the custom option if it’s not as desired. As I have several disks I find that adding disk labels to each helps me identify which one is which.