Cannot reinstall MySql in 11.10 - ERROR: There's not enough space in /var/lib/mysql/
- by Robin McCain
I've tried it all (removing all the packages associated with MySQL) but keep getting stuff like this:
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 142196 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking mysql-server-5.1 (from .../mysql-server-5.1_5.1.63-0ubuntu0.11.10.1_amd64.deb) ...
ERROR: There's not enough space in /var/lib/mysql/
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.1_5.1.63-0ubuntu0.11.10.1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
subprocess new pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/mysql-server-5.1_5.1.63-0ubuntu0.11.10.1_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Here is my drive space map.
root@kyle:/# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/kyle-root
59361428 59021768 0 100% /
udev 1014052 8 1014044 1% /dev
tmpfs 409304 1476 407828 1% /run
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 1023256 0 1023256 0% /run/shm
/dev/sda1 233191 46888 173862 22% /boot
/dev/md0 1922858288 1048513192 776669500 58% /media/array
The root volume actually only has about 10 gigabytes in use on the hard drive (which has a 60 gig partition). /dev/md0 is a 2 TB raid array.
