odakrell
July 5th, 2012, 03:41 PM
Hey. Thanks for reading.
I'm using xubuntu 11.10 on an Asus eee PC X101. My root partition is ~6 GB big, swap is ~500 MB, home is ~1 GB (pathetic, I know, but xubuntu is intended for low-end computers, right?).
My Update Manager is set to only download and apply important security updates. Despite this setting, I've noticed that over the past year or so, my root partition continually filled up. I don't remember exactly how much space was used after the fresh install, but it was in the range of 3 GB. Add to that at most 1 GB for programs I installed myself, leaving me with about 2 GB. That free space has been getting smaller and smaller with each update process, or at least that's my impression. Note: I reguarly ran sudo apt-get clean to remove old installation packages, but that didn't reverse the trend by much.
I now have about 500 MB free on root, and a few days ago, the Update manager ran again, downloading and installing an upgrade to the Linux kernel (if I remember it right), then threw an error that I can't find anymore. Since then, any attempt to open the Update Manager leads to the warning Not all updates can be installed, and the query if I want a Partial Upgrade. If I confirm, a window named Distribution Upgrade pops up, and closes shortly afterwards. In the short time it is open, I can read something about No space left on device.
Okay, finally, my questions:
(1) Is this caused by too little space on my root partition? Like I said above, I still have above 500 MB free space on my root, but maybe that's not enough. So I don't really know if that is what causes the upgrade error.
(2) Assuming it is related to HD space, can I fix it without re-installing xubuntu? Pretty self-evident question. I already ran apt-get clean and apt-get autoremove to get additional free space, but I don't know what else I can do to free up more space on root. (Note: un-installing programs is not the solution. Like I said above, I have hardly installed anything manually)
(3) Assuming I need to re-install, how can I avoid this problem in the future? Since I already avoided installing additional programs, and I set the Upgrades to "Important only", I don't really know how I can prevent xubuntu from gobbling up all my HD space like that. Is there a way to force xubuntu to minimize space, after installation? I mean, a 6 GB root is pretty small, but shouldn't it be enough to run xubuntu continuously?
I'm using xubuntu 11.10 on an Asus eee PC X101. My root partition is ~6 GB big, swap is ~500 MB, home is ~1 GB (pathetic, I know, but xubuntu is intended for low-end computers, right?).
My Update Manager is set to only download and apply important security updates. Despite this setting, I've noticed that over the past year or so, my root partition continually filled up. I don't remember exactly how much space was used after the fresh install, but it was in the range of 3 GB. Add to that at most 1 GB for programs I installed myself, leaving me with about 2 GB. That free space has been getting smaller and smaller with each update process, or at least that's my impression. Note: I reguarly ran sudo apt-get clean to remove old installation packages, but that didn't reverse the trend by much.
I now have about 500 MB free on root, and a few days ago, the Update manager ran again, downloading and installing an upgrade to the Linux kernel (if I remember it right), then threw an error that I can't find anymore. Since then, any attempt to open the Update Manager leads to the warning Not all updates can be installed, and the query if I want a Partial Upgrade. If I confirm, a window named Distribution Upgrade pops up, and closes shortly afterwards. In the short time it is open, I can read something about No space left on device.
Okay, finally, my questions:
(1) Is this caused by too little space on my root partition? Like I said above, I still have above 500 MB free space on my root, but maybe that's not enough. So I don't really know if that is what causes the upgrade error.
(2) Assuming it is related to HD space, can I fix it without re-installing xubuntu? Pretty self-evident question. I already ran apt-get clean and apt-get autoremove to get additional free space, but I don't know what else I can do to free up more space on root. (Note: un-installing programs is not the solution. Like I said above, I have hardly installed anything manually)
(3) Assuming I need to re-install, how can I avoid this problem in the future? Since I already avoided installing additional programs, and I set the Upgrades to "Important only", I don't really know how I can prevent xubuntu from gobbling up all my HD space like that. Is there a way to force xubuntu to minimize space, after installation? I mean, a 6 GB root is pretty small, but shouldn't it be enough to run xubuntu continuously?