m-brooks
March 26th, 2015, 08:46 AM
My current lubuntu installation is my second. I had to abandon my first after I found that it was unable to upgrade itself due to filling its root partition.
So I asked the question on this forum - where does the upgrade process consume space? I was told that it is /var/cache/apt/archives.
I have an EeePC, hence my space limitations. It has a 4GB main SSD and an 8GB SD card.
So for my second installation I configured matters so that /var had loads of space. It still does - 3.1G still free out of 3.7G.
However, I have just hit the same problem. The upgrade is reporting that it needs 360M and that in order to get that I have to free up 320M. This tells me that I have only 40M on the filesystem location that it is interested in.
df -h gives me:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 3.7G 3.4G 39M 99% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 995M 4.0K 995M 1% /dev
tmpfs 201M 1.1M 200M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1004M 0 1004M 0% /run/shm
none 100M 24K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sdb1 3.7G 1.5G 2.0G 43% /home
/dev/sdb5 3.7G 365M 3.1G 11% /var
As you can see I have 39M free on the root. So the upgrade isn't looking for space in /var.
Can anyone give me any more useful info here? I don't want to go through all this again.
Regards,
Michael
So I asked the question on this forum - where does the upgrade process consume space? I was told that it is /var/cache/apt/archives.
I have an EeePC, hence my space limitations. It has a 4GB main SSD and an 8GB SD card.
So for my second installation I configured matters so that /var had loads of space. It still does - 3.1G still free out of 3.7G.
However, I have just hit the same problem. The upgrade is reporting that it needs 360M and that in order to get that I have to free up 320M. This tells me that I have only 40M on the filesystem location that it is interested in.
df -h gives me:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 3.7G 3.4G 39M 99% /
none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 995M 4.0K 995M 1% /dev
tmpfs 201M 1.1M 200M 1% /run
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
none 1004M 0 1004M 0% /run/shm
none 100M 24K 100M 1% /run/user
/dev/sdb1 3.7G 1.5G 2.0G 43% /home
/dev/sdb5 3.7G 365M 3.1G 11% /var
As you can see I have 39M free on the root. So the upgrade isn't looking for space in /var.
Can anyone give me any more useful info here? I don't want to go through all this again.
Regards,
Michael