Help! I cannot upgrade to New Ubuntu release 12.04.4 LTS

[Rick Magraw]

Here is the status of my disk partitions:

rsm at rsm-laptop:~$ df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5              8120500   6868972    842276  90% /
none                   1019584       288   1019296   1% /dev
none                   1026156        88   1026068   1% /dev/shm
none                   1026156        88   1026068   1% /var/run
none                   1026156         0   1026156   0% /var/lock
none                   1026156         0   1026156   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda7             59601088    316532  56280808   1% /home
/dev/sda1             83899428  35481436  48417992  43%
/media/30001C24001BEF98



On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 2014-04-27 at 17:56 -0400, Rick Magraw wrote:
>
> > I have freed up copious amounts of disk space and emptied the trash
> > over the past day, but I still get exactly the same error message:
>
> > Not enough free disk space
> >
> > The upgrade has aborted.
> > The upgrade needs a total of 3.377 M of free space on disk '/'
> > Please free at least an additional space of 2.528 M on disk '/'
>
> If you have multiple partitions and your home directory is on a
> different partition (e.g, "/home") and not the root partition, then
> emptying your trash and cleaning up files in your home directory won't
> help at all.
>
> The first thing we need to see is the status of your disk partitions.
> Open a terminal window and run the command:
>
>   df
>
> and send the results to the list.
>
> If you see a "/home" partition (a line with "/home" in the "Mounted on"
> column) then no amount of cleaning your personal files will help you
> because that doesn't free up space in the root partition ("/").
>
> However, 2.5M is not very much!  You can typically free up much more
> than that by deleting cached package files /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb
>
>
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