Upgrade not "seeing" the free disk space
I am trying to upgrade from 5.5 to 6.0. My home folder says that it has 8.7 GB of free space. But then during the upgrade I get this message:
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Not enough free disk space
The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 1060 M free
space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 80.9 M of disk
space on '/'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of
former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
Restoring original system state
Aborting
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Building data structures... Done
=== Command detached from window (Wed May 8 10:41:09 2013) ===
=== Command terminated with exit status 1 (Wed May 8 10:41:09 2013) ===
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So it needs about 1GB of disk space and I have almost 9. Any advice on how to get it to see the free space will be appreciated.
(Btw, I did run the apt-get clean and I don't have files to delete)
El 08/05/13 10:48, name at domain escribió:
> I am trying to upgrade from 5.5 to 6.0. My home folder says that it
> has 8.7 GB of free space. But then during the upgrade I get this message:
> ============================================
> Not enough free disk space
>
> The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 1060 M free
> space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 80.9 M of disk
> space on '/'. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of
> former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
You have 8.7 GB on /home
The upgrader camplains about you only having 80.9 MB on /.
The upgrader needs 1 GB to upgrade.
You need more space on your root (/) partition, not on your home (/home)
partition.
I suggest you do as you are told:
sudo apt-get clean
You can see the free space you have on each partition with:
df -h |grep sd
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Thank you Quiliro. I cleaned it, but still have only 999MB available on "/". Is there an easy way for me to "give" the "/" some of the disk space that is now available in the /home?
> Is there an easy way for me to "give" the "/" some of the disk space that is now available in the /home?
Unfortunately no. At least I don't know how.
Maybe open the synaptic package manager, select installed packages and sort them by installed size. (You might need to make the installed size column visible in synaptic settings) Then simply uninstall a large enough package for the time of the upgrade.
Or perhaps you have some useless packages installed that you could get rid of permanently.
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use synaptic to uninstal libre office suite. make sure you use remove completly.
after install you might have space to reinstall.
careful.
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after your upgrade to 6.0 i mean
but better uninstall programs you do not need.
you might be better off reinstalling giving plenty extra to /.
Uninstalling a few packages that I will reinstall later did the trick. Thank you for the creative suggestions. I was about to try gparted, but I am glad I didn't, it would have taken longer and I may have messed up.