Updates installed while 0 bytes available space: how to recover?

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Updates installed while 0 bytes available space: how to recover?

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I just had the update manager install new versions for a whole lot of packages, including the kernel and Firefox. While this happened I got a warning of low disk space (on the system partition) and found that the updates had filled it so much that there was actually at 0 bytes available for most of the time. I started clearing up space, which the updates kept eating up until it was back to 0 bytes. Still, the updates ran without error messages, however I'm suspicious that something must have gone wrong. After clearing up more space with

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sudo apt clean; sudo apt autoremove
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I already re-installed the new kernel version, which was easy thanks to the update manager. However as for the other packages, that's not so simple. So far I have run

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sudo dpkg --configure -a
with no output. Can I do anything else? Do I need to dig into the apt and dpkg log files to find which packages may be corrupted? And then how do I repeat the updates? Or would you assume everything is fine and I should just reboot?

Putting this in the "Beginner Questions" section because, like a total noob, I haven't set up Timeshift on this computer yet.
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Re: Updates installed while 0 bytes available space: how to recover?

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It seems unlikely to me that they would have installed at all if there were really 0 bytes available. But, wait & see what others have to say.
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Re: Updates installed while 0 bytes available space: how to recover?

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https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... SP0v4B9gMG
If you have 0 bytes free on / you won't be able to login.
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Re: Updates installed while 0 bytes available space: how to recover?

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What I forgot to mention: there was still some space free at the start, and when I noticed the problem I started clearing up space, which the updates then filled up again.
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