Trying to Upgarde but PC says I have little Space

[Nils Kassube]

Richard Barmann wrote:
> On 03/27/2016 03:17 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > I think your partition sda2 only has about 1/2 GiB free space. If
> > that is the partition for "/", then you should try to move some
> > files to another partition. Or you could try to make some space by
> > removing old kernels and also run the command "sudo apt-get clean"
> > in a terminal (konsole).
> > 
> > The partition for "/" is used during the upgrade to download the new
> > packages, and that needs a lot of free space. Actually the packages
> > are downloaded to "/var/cache/apt/archives", so if you make that
> > directory a symbolic link to a directory on another partition with
> > sufficient space, it could also work.

> I have the root system with  "var" in it in the 11 GB partution as
> well s the 23 GB partition. The
> 11 GB partition  shows archives as empty.

It seems I guessed wrong because according to your second picture it 
looks like your "/" partition is somewhere on sdb. Unfortunately your 
pictures are hardly readable, so I don't know exactly which partition it 
is, but it seems to be a 8.3 Gib partition which has about 1 Gib of free 
space. But that doesn't really look much better than the 1/2 Gib space 
on sda2.

> The archives in the 23 GB
> partiion is full of  files. Can I delete the Linux Headers Generic
> and Linux Image Generic? They   go back
> to 4.2.0.32.35. What is the kernal we are in now? 

If you run the command "sudo apt-get clean" it will remove all the files 
in "/var/cache/apt/archives". Those packages are no longer needed 
because they are already installed. But you could also uninstall old 
kernels. You only need to keep the current kernel. You can find out 
which is the current kernel with the command

uname -r

in a terminal.

> Why do I have two root systems?

I don't know - maybe you installed Kubuntu twice.


Nils