Your problem is that Ubuntu wants 2002M free space on the *root* (/) partition (/dev/sda2)<br>The majority of your space (as well as most of the things you are deleting to free it up) are on the /home partition (/dev/sda4).<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 4 November 2012 22:47, nigel white <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:xm2@btinternet.com" target="_blank">xm2@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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% / <<<---------------- THIS IS THE LINE THAT MATTERS<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></blockquote><div> <br>Can you post the output of<br><br>sudo du -sh /* 2>/dev/null<br></div><br>(this may take some time)<br>It may be that there is some rubbish in /tmp or /var that you can dump.<br>If there isn't, the simplest solution to your *stated* problem would be to use a partitioning<br>
tool to resize the root partition, using some of that spare space in /home. Have never had to do<br>this, but I suspect that it has to be done while the partition is not mounted, so it may be<br>somewhat involved. If you want to go this route, there's probably a good guide on the internet somewhere.<br>
<br>However, t has been my experience that upgrading, particularly Ubuntu systems, is as likely to<br>make a system more unstable as it is to improve it.<br>Are you particularly attached to what is on your root partition? Looking at the output of df,<br>
it would seem that you already have a separate /home partition (which is where all your documents, photos etc<br>should be). Given this, you ought to be able to blow away your existing installation and replace with a fresh install<br>
without losing any of your data.<br><br>If you post the output of the above command, we'll see about making the upgrade work. But it's worth keeping<br>in mind that your partition layout ought to make a 'fresh' install relatively painless.<br>
<br>HTH,<br><br>D<br><br></div><br>