[YLUG] can't free up enough space to upgrade Ubuntu

[Daeghnao]

Your storage is split across two partitions, sda2 and sda4. Ubuntu wants space on sda2. Your documents and such will be on sda4, so messing with them will be irrelevant.

To figure out if there's anything you can quickly remove to free up space, it would be necessary to find out what space is used by what on sda2. I would start with /tmp, then /var/tmp, then possibly the rest of /var, then look for other large files that are not in /home. You may find that there is some graphical space allocation viewer available, perhaps Baobab, KDirStat or gdmap will help (I used to use gdmap quite a bit, it was pretty helpful for me).

Gould luck, let us know what you find!

-- 
 -- zoe

On 4 Nov 2012, at 22:47, nigel white <xm2 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> In spite of removing all my documents and ending up with 40.8GB of
> available space (according to Disk Usage Analyser) I cannot get Ubuntu
> to upgrade. I get "upgrade needs 2002M free on disk /. Free an
> additional 436M on /". Every time I free up more space on / this request
> changes, but only by small amounts ie 516M > 390M > 363M > 436M. I keep
> freeing more space, but sometimes the requested space actually
> increases!
> 
> I have done several previous Ubuntu upgrades with no problems.
> 
> df -h gets (but I don't understand what this means)
> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda2       9.3G  7.3G  1.6G  83% /
> udev            494M  4.0K  494M   1% /dev
> tmpfs           201M  1.2M  200M   1% /run
> none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
> none            501M  196K  501M   1% /run/shm
> /dev/sda4        40G  4.1G   34G  11% /home
> 
> I'm trying to upgrade from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to 12.10 because Ubuntu
> keeps freezing. Nothing works except the mouse moves. The only thing it
> responds to is holding down the on/off button. Sporadic problem. I have
> no idea what's triggering it.
> 
> According to Disk Usage Analyser my total capacity is 52.9GB. Used is
> 12.1GB and / is 11.5GB.
> 
> I have emptied the wastebasket and done sudo apt-get clean.
> 
> I should also explain that I know what the terminal is, but it doesn't
> do me much good as I can never remember a single unix command from one
> terminal session to the next. Sad but true )-:
> 
> Does anyone have any hope to offer?
> 
> Many thanks
> Nigel
> Headingley, Leeds
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> York mailing list
> York at lists.lug.org.uk
> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/york