Problem with updates

[Arconius]

Hello all again

Hope this is the right place to ask. Just install ubuntu. Its giving the updates I need to install. I tried to install them and its errors out saying it needs 400M and I only have 357M. Sounds like its still looking for my flash drive. I used a flash drive to install.

[theozzlives]

How big did you make your root (/) partition?

[Arconius]

No idea. Any fix for this? Or reinstall

[Partyboi2]

Can you open a terminal (Applications>Accessories>Terminal) and post the output to

df -h

[Headbanger2510]

Can you post how your partition sizes are like, so we can help you?

[Arconius]

arconius@arconius-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 2.3G 2.2G 0 100% /
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1.5G 108K 1.5G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.5G 160K 1.5G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.5G 120K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1.5G 2.4M 1.5G 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
/dev/sr0 7.7G 7.7G 0 100% /media/cdrom1
/dev/sda5 73G 280M 72G 1% /media/New Volume

[Headbanger2510]

Sounds to me like /dev/sda5 is getting the space destinated to /dev/sda2.
So what you need to do is to boot with your liveUSB or liveCD and execute gparted, then you should resize /dev/sda5 to something smaller so /dev/sda2 can get enough space.

[Partyboi2]

arconius@arconius-desktop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 2.3G 2.2G 0 100% /
tmpfs 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1.5G 108K 1.5G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.5G 160K 1.5G 1% /dev
tmpfs 1.5G 120K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1.5G 2.4M 1.5G 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
/dev/sr0 7.7G 7.7G 0 100% /media/cdrom1
/dev/sda5 73G 280M 72G 1% /media/New Volume
Your sda2 partitions which is the root partition is only 2.3 gig, so you will need to increase the size of it.
Can you also post the output to

sudo fdisk -lu

[Arconius]

How do I change /dev/sda2 size? I made /dev/sda5 smaller. Looks like I need to resize /dev/sda1 its next to /dev/sda2 and it has a key to it.

[Headbanger2510]

Just select /dev/sda2 and click resize/move.

[Arconius]

Thank you Headbanger2510! One of the partition was mounted, blocked from resize\move command. Once it was off all was good.