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

[Pete]

On 17/01/11 08:43, Colin Law wrote:
> On 16 January 2011 23:55, 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?
>
> I don't think it is as serious as it sounds and it should be ok to
> uninstall OO.  Don't take me as authoritative on this however.  Can
> someone more knowledgeable confirm this?
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> Swap should only actually be used rarely.  Are you short of RAM also?
>
>>
>> /home contains only 49420 blocks (as reported by du -s)
>>
>> How can I obtain the required amount of space?
>> --
>
> How big is your disk?  you really need a minimum of about 8Gig altogether.
> If overall disk space is the issue you may be able to get away with a
> re-install rather than an upgrade, but it sounds as if you may be
> pushing the machine to the limit.  Perhaps it is time for a hardware
> upgrade.
>
> Colin
>
Hi,

I have just installed lucid (10.04) on what will be my programming and 
test box on a old 10gb hdd (clean install not upgrade)! by the time all 
packages were installed I was using 8.75gb according to properties in 
nautilus! whilst I would recommend having a larger drive for general use 
I never cease to be amazed that buntu will fit on such a small drive 
when win7 takes up approx twice as much room for a basic install!! And 
does a whole lot less!!

Regarding your issue the suggestion of gparted livecd would seem to be 
the way forward available from: > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

from there you will be able to resize your relevant partitions (back up 
all important data first as this can go wrong!!)

hope this helps

Pete