/var/lib/apt/lists/partial is full

[RASHID]

After i upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04, my disk space become zero.....Surprised.

After analysing the disk space, found /var/lib/apt/lists/partial is full. i removed two heaviest file manually. system became normal after that. The same thing i hdd repeated in the next day. I hope some daily update is eating my disk space. I request a support ASAP.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Alex Kretzschmar (alexktz)]

experienced the above today too.

running apt-get update once is fine. it's on the second running of the command that /partial fills up in my case to 12GB before filling the entire root fs.

[Achim Behrens (k1l)]

A User reported that behaviour and on his "sudo apt-get update" there were some PPAs with errors. After removing the failing PPAs the issue seems to be resolved.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Which mirror of the Ubuntu archive do you use?

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

This is possibly a duplicate of bug 1445239.

[Alex Kretzschmar (alexktz)]

Specifically this occurs when a 404 for a particularly repo (i.e. vivid not available in a PPA). Then a second apt-get update causes the /partial dir to fill up until my root is full (18gb).