12.04 server - apt-get upgrade failed

[MichaelW64]

Hello,

on a Ubuntu 12.04 server I get this message when doing apt-get upgrade:

Could not open file /var/cache/apt/archives/partial/php5-common_5.3.10-1ubuntu3.5_i386.deb - open (28: No space left on device) [IP: 91.189.92.200 80]

This is only one example, I get this with many packages.

du -f /var tells:

Filesystem                        Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/nas--vsnag01-root   15G  2.3G   12G  17% /

So there is plenty of space.

apt-get clean and then apt-get upgrade at least starts the upgrade otherwise I get the error with the first package.


Any ideas?

Regards,

Michael

[dino99]

as it says:

(28: No space left on device)

so from a teminal :

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*

or use gparted (on unmounted partition of course) to make room

note: that raid installation might have some right limits

[MichaelW64]

That didn't help at all.
Before deleting the files I had 2.3 GB used and 12 GB free
After that I had 2.2 GB used and 12 GB free. So that wasn't that much of a difference.
I did (as root) apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

That brought up this message:

Need to get 88.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 775 kB of additional disk space will be used.

Nonetheless I got the same error message.

[snowpine]

The error suggests a disk space error on one or more partitions. Kindly post the output of:

df -h

[MichaelW64]

Here you are:

root@nas-vsnag01:~# df -h
Filesystem                     Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/nas--vsnag01-root   15G  2.3G   12G  17% /
udev                           494M  4.0K  494M   1% /dev
tmpfs                          201M  240K  201M   1% /run
none                           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
none                           501M     0  501M   0% /run/shm
/dev/sda1                      228M  156M   60M  73% /boot