Feisty Fawn upgrade failure : Microsoft-like behavior

[cj]

Jonathan D. Graham wrote:
> Attempting to upgrade from ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04 and I get the following error in a popup:
>
> Not enough free disk space
>
> The upgrade aborts now. Please free at least 489M of disk space on /usr. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
>
> But, this is completely wrong as df /usr reveals:
>
> /dev/sda5              4032092   2982116    845152  78% /
>
> So, 845M of disk space...almost twice the required space.
>
> So, has Ubuntu gone the way of Microsoft or is there some command line thing I
> can do to override disk space checks and force the upgrade to proceed?
>
> Thanks,
> Jonathan Graham
> jgraham at Ucar.edu
>
>   
if i remember right, the package said that ubuntu requires 2 gig. thats 
probably for a default install

--cj