bige40wings
January 11th, 2010, 03:11 AM
I'm getting the "Not enough free disk space" error when I run Update Manager. I've read through some threads and found that those experiencing this didn't make their root partition large enough. I read about the 2.5GB installation "bug". None of this explains what has happened on my system. Let me explain.
I am dual booting Windows Vista Business and Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic on a Laptop PC with 60GB Hard drive space. My partitions are as follows:
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 58.5 GB, 58506416640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7113 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe686f016
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 7 3193 25599577+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 3194 6597 27342630 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 6598 7113 4142080 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 3194 6232 24410736 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 6233 6597 2931831 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Basically:
/boot (ext2) 47.03MB 31.99MB Used 15.05MB Unused
Windows Vista (ntfs) 24.41GB
extended partition with:
/ (ext4) 23.28GB 4.04GB Used 19.24GB Unused
linux-swap 2.80GB
Pagefile (ntfs) 3.95GB
Disk Usage Analyzer results:
Folder Usage Size Contents
/ 100.0% 3.5GB 19 items
> usr 82.5% 2.9GB 8 items
> var 6.2% 221.1MB 13 items
> lib 5.5% 196.9MB 102 items
> home 4.3% 154.4MB 1 item
> boot 0.8% 29.8MB 15 items
> etc 0.4% 13.4MB 236 items
sbin 0.2% 7.9MB 137 items
bin 0.1% 5.3MB 103 items
> dev 0.0% 1.4MB 15 items
> srv 0.0% 200.0KB 1 item
> tmp 0.0% 44.0KB 8 items
> media 0.0% 8.0KB 1 item
mnt 0.0% 4.0KB 0 items
opt 0.0% 4.0KB 0 items
selinux 0.0% 4.0KB 0 items
So why is the filesystem only giving root 3.5GB of space? I have over 19GB of free space on the linux ext4 partition, but root is full. Why?
I am dual booting Windows Vista Business and Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic on a Laptop PC with 60GB Hard drive space. My partitions are as follows:
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 58.5 GB, 58506416640 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7113 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe686f016
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 * 7 3193 25599577+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 3194 6597 27342630 5 Extended
/dev/sda4 6598 7113 4142080 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 3194 6232 24410736 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 6233 6597 2931831 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Basically:
/boot (ext2) 47.03MB 31.99MB Used 15.05MB Unused
Windows Vista (ntfs) 24.41GB
extended partition with:
/ (ext4) 23.28GB 4.04GB Used 19.24GB Unused
linux-swap 2.80GB
Pagefile (ntfs) 3.95GB
Disk Usage Analyzer results:
Folder Usage Size Contents
/ 100.0% 3.5GB 19 items
> usr 82.5% 2.9GB 8 items
> var 6.2% 221.1MB 13 items
> lib 5.5% 196.9MB 102 items
> home 4.3% 154.4MB 1 item
> boot 0.8% 29.8MB 15 items
> etc 0.4% 13.4MB 236 items
sbin 0.2% 7.9MB 137 items
bin 0.1% 5.3MB 103 items
> dev 0.0% 1.4MB 15 items
> srv 0.0% 200.0KB 1 item
> tmp 0.0% 44.0KB 8 items
> media 0.0% 8.0KB 1 item
mnt 0.0% 4.0KB 0 items
opt 0.0% 4.0KB 0 items
selinux 0.0% 4.0KB 0 items
So why is the filesystem only giving root 3.5GB of space? I have over 19GB of free space on the linux ext4 partition, but root is full. Why?