Second System results of 8.04 LTS to 10.04.1 LTS Upgrade **MORE PROBLEMS**

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2 at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> While my first system worked very well doing the upgrade from 8.04 LTS to
> 10.04.1 LTS. I have hit another snag and for the life of me I can't seem to
> get around it.
>
> The Upgrade attempts to download the packages and reports there is not
> enough space available and quits. It says to run "apt-get clean" to free up
> space. I did that and nothing happens. I have also gone though the installed
> packages and purged those that I know I do not need for the system in
> question. However that still did not yield enough space. Currently df shows
> the following information:
>
> /dev/sda1 3944620 1K blocks on the device 2848000 blocks used which leaves
> 897820 Available. The Update Manager wants some 1900MB more space!
>
> If I try to uninstall open-office (all of it, since I don't need it).
> Synaptic says that the ubuntu desktop and several other packages will be
> removed as well. Can I ignore those or will it cause serious problems?
>
> The only other space on the physical drive is allocated to swap (it may be a
> bit large but I doubt that it is that big. Top reports swap to be 240932k
> total and currently shows 91840k free.
>
> /home contains only 49420 blocks (as reported by du -s)
>
> How can I obtain the required amount of space?

You could download GParted Live CD

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

And then, booting from the CD, resize your partitions leaving a
reasonable amount of space on /dev/sda1, etc..

My /sys partition alone takes 6 GB of space on a very stardard
install, and my /home is elseware. I believe you should need at least
10GB for the whole system.

An alternative would be to install Xubuntu or another leaner system.

-- 
L M Nicolosi, Eng.
GNU-Linux Regist. User #481505 - http://counter.li.org/
Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64