Cannot backup, not enough free space on drive

[LikeAutomation]

I noticed my son's Zee S2 hasn't been backing up. While looking through other threads I found a similar issue, however, their problem is different. Running a df -h I get

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 6.9G 6.6G 0 100% /
devtmpfs 458M 0 458M 0% /dev
tmpfs 462M 16K 462M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 462M 6.2M 456M 2% /run
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 462M 0 462M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 462M 172K 462M 1% /var/log
tmpfs 462M 0 462M 0% /tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p6 60M 21M 39M 36% /boot

Pretty sure the first line might be related.... 😉
The question is how do I fix it. Rebooting does not do the trick.


Date/time=10/20/2022 4:30:37 PM EDT
Version=HS4 ZEE S2/PI Edition 4.2.16.0 (Linux)
MONO Version=Mono JIT compiler version 5.18.1.0 (tarball Fri Mar 15 21:12:47 UTC 2019)

License=Registered
Confguration File=/usr/local/HomeSeer/Data/HomeSeerData.json
Uptime=0 Days 0 Hours 13 Minutes 23 Seconds
Lan IP=192.168.2.25 (HomeTrollerZeeS2V5)
Device Count=53
Event Count=6
Plugins Enabled=EnvisaLink:,HS MyQ:,Z-Wave:
Modules/Threads=70 Modules, 49 Threads
Available Threads=398
HomeSeer Memory Used=76 Mbytes
Plugins Installed=EnvisaLink 3.0.0.40,HS MyQ 4.0.7.0,Z-Wave 3.0.10.0
Disk Size=14.87GB

[rmasonjr]

The short answer is that you need a 32G SD card instead of a 16G.

That said, you might be able to remove some of the older backups that live in /usr/local/HomeSeer/html/backups

[LikeAutomation]

So 2 new questions... 😏
1. How do I delete the backups
2. How do I upgrade the SD card and reinstall? I thought I saw that in the upgrade for HS3 to HS4 but I don't see it in the upgrade KB.

Thanks!

[LikeAutomation]

so I SSH'ed in and looked. there are only 9 files using 490 K. And that wouldn't solve my full /dev/root problem. I think that's the problem I need to fix

[zwolfpack]

Looks you have an 8GB capacity card, small by today's standards.

The du (disk usage) command can be used to determine where large files are hiding. Likely suspects are the HomeSeer folder and possibly the system logs folder.

du -s /usr/local/HomeSeer
du -s /var/log

The value returned is in Kbytes.

Once you identify a large folder, you can burrow down and determine the large subfolders. For example, for the HomeSeer folder

cd /usr/local/HomeSeer
du
12960   ./Logs
4       ./temp
1332    ./Data/HomeSeerData.json
28      ./Data/PHLocation2
80      ./Data/Energy
156     ./Data/Z-Wave/DeviceSettings
344     ./Data/Z-Wave
4       ./Data/Backup
440     ./Data/mcsMQTT
296     ./Data/skWare/DeviceHistory
300     ./Data/skWare
2544    ./Data
256     ./scripts
16      ./data/mcsMQTT
20      ./data
4       ./Wave
276     ./PollyCache
37208   ./Updates4/mcsMQTT5.26.5.4
6188    ./Updates4/Z-Wave4.0.3.0
4       ./Updates4/Zips
43408   ./Updates4
3352    ./Media
... etc ...

[rmasonjr]

So 2 new questions... 😏
1. How do I delete the backups

ssh into the Pi and:
cd /usr/local/HomeSeer/html/backups
ls -lt
This will show you any backups. I would remove them all:
sudo rm -f *
**now do a backup from HS and verify a file exists

2. How do I upgrade the SD card and reinstall? I thought I saw that in the upgrade for HS3 to HS4 but I don't see it in the upgrade KB.

You'll want to take an image of the existing card using something like Win32 Disk Imager.
That will save the image as a file.
Next, take your new 32G card, format it, and use balenaEtcher to write the image to the new SD card.

Thanks![/QUOTE]

[LikeAutomation]

Thanks! Worked perfectly!!!