[ubuntu-uk] "Space" error

[Sean Miller]

David Morley wrote:
> On 23/04/07, Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net> wrote:
>   
>> Anyone had any further thoughts on why the update manager is saying that
>> I have less than 200MB in /usr yet I have 1.5GB?
>>
>> It's stopping me updating, something I wanted to do over the weekend but
>> have failed miserably.
>>
>> Failing that, how else can I upgrade? Can I do it manually? dist-upgrade
>> type stuff? (I recall Paul Sladen talking me through an upgrade to Edgy
>> sometime back from the command line but have forgotten the steps to do it)
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>     
>
> Sean How have you partitioned the drive?
>
> If you have give / (root) a partition then it could be this partition
> that is too small.  This is normally down to things like /var and /tmp
> taking up extra space.
>
> If you can provide a bit more info then you can probably be helped better.
>   
Hi David!

Haven't done anything special at all... let Ubuntu do it all... here...

seanmiller at seanmiller-laptop:/usr$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 10784216 8706420 1529980 86% /
varrun 192492 120 192372 1% /var/run
varlock 192492 4 192488 1% /var/lock
procbususb 10240 120 10120 2% /proc/bus/usb
udev 10240 120 10120 2% /dev
devshm 192492 0 192492 0% /dev/shm
lrm 192492 18132 174360 10% /lib/modules/2.6.17-10-386/volatile
/dev/hda1 27607668 20798588 6809080 76% /media/hda1
seanmiller at seanmiller-laptop:/usr$

Sean