Unable to update because of "write error"

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When I was notified that there were more than three hundred updates, I attempted to install them but it failed with

Download (curl) error for ‘http://download.opensuse.org/factory/repo/oss/suse/noarch/libreoffice-icon-theme-galaxy-4.4.1.2-1.1.noarch.rpm’:
Error code: Write error
Error message: Failed writing body (1124 != 1428)

The package varies when I reattempt the update. When I check disk usage, I get

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.5G 0 3.5G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.5G 196K 3.5G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.5G 11M 3.5G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.5G 0 3.5G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /.snapshots
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /var/tmp
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /var/spool
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /var/opt
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /var/log
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /var/lib/pgsql
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /var/lib/named
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /var/lib/mailman
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /var/crash
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /usr/local
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /tmp
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /srv
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /opt
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi
/dev/sda7 41G 40G 13M 100% /boot/grub2/i386-pc
/dev/sda2 96M 60M 37M 62% /boot/efi
/dev/sda8 690G 51G 640G 8% /home

I then removed everything from /tmp, and also from /var/tmp. I still have

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.5G 0 3.5G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.5G 200K 3.5G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.5G 11M 3.5G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.5G 0 3.5G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /.snapshots
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /var/tmp
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /var/spool
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /var/opt
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /var/log
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /var/lib/pgsql
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /var/lib/named
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /var/lib/mailman
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /var/crash
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /usr/local
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /tmp
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /srv
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /opt
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 422M 99% /boot/grub2/i386-pc
/dev/sda2 96M 60M 37M 62% /boot/efi
/dev/sda8 690G 51G 640G 8% /home

After rebooting, disk usage is

df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 3.5G 0 3.5G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.5G 116K 3.5G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3.5G 2.3M 3.5G 1% /run
tmpfs 3.5G 0 3.5G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /.snapshots
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /var/tmp
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /var/spool
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /var/opt
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /var/log
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /var/lib/pgsql
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /var/lib/named
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /var/lib/mailman
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /var/crash
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /usr/local
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /tmp
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /srv
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /opt
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /boot/grub2/x86_64-efi
/dev/sda7 41G 39G 403M 100% /boot/grub2/i386-pc
/dev/sda2 96M 60M 37M 62% /boot/efi
/dev/sda8 690G 51G 640G 8% /home

I don’t know why disk space is being chewed up nor which other area to try to remove files from. Does anyone have any idea?

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Apparently you are using btrfs. So that’s probably caused by the snapshots that are generated automatically.
Try to remove some with YaST->Snapper.

3

Many thanks. I threw away the entire update history with Snapper and that fixed the problem. :slight_smile: