<p>Hi, </p>
<p>The upgrade almost certainly wants free space on / so anything you delete from your home directory won't help. Your root partition (/) $ is very small. If you can make it larger or move something like /var onto a new partition you should be able to do the upgrade fine.</p>
<p>If this isn't an option you can try deleting your apt cache or removing any programs you don't need anymore. This may be enough for you to do the upgrade. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 4, 2012 11:09 PM, "nigel white" <<a href="mailto:xm2@btinternet.com">xm2@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi<br>
<br>
In spite of removing all my documents and ending up with 40.8GB of<br>
available space (according to Disk Usage Analyser) I cannot get Ubuntu<br>
to upgrade. I get "upgrade needs 2002M free on disk /. Free an<br>
additional 436M on /". Every time I free up more space on / this request<br>
changes, but only by small amounts ie 516M > 390M > 363M > 436M. I keep<br>
freeing more space, but sometimes the requested space actually<br>
increases!<br>
<br>
I have done several previous Ubuntu upgrades with no problems.<br>
<br>
df -h gets (but I don't understand what this means)<br>
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>
/dev/sda2 9.3G 7.3G 1.6G 83% /<br>
udev 494M 4.0K 494M 1% /dev<br>
tmpfs 201M 1.2M 200M 1% /run<br>
none 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock<br>
none 501M 196K 501M 1% /run/shm<br>
/dev/sda4 40G 4.1G 34G 11% /home<br>
<br>
I'm trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 12.10 because Ubuntu<br>
keeps freezing. Nothing works except the mouse moves. The only thing it<br>
responds to is holding down the on/off button. Sporadic problem. I have<br>
no idea what's triggering it.<br>
<br>
According to Disk Usage Analyser my total capacity is 52.9GB. Used is<br>
12.1GB and / is 11.5GB.<br>
<br>
I have emptied the wastebasket and done sudo apt-get clean.<br>
<br>
I should also explain that I know what the terminal is, but it doesn't<br>
do me much good as I can never remember a single unix command from one<br>
terminal session to the next. Sad but true )-:<br>
<br>
Does anyone have any hope to offer?<br>
<br>
Many thanks<br>
Nigel<br>
Headingley, Leeds<br>
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