Trying to Upgarde but PC says I have little Space

[Myriam Schweingruber]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 11:13 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> 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.

Richard: instead of pictures that lack some information, why not post
the text output you get when running this command:

df -h

That tells us the mount points and everything else that is needed to help you

Regards, Myriam
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