Out of space despite lots of free space remaining
- by Kristian Thomsen
When upgrading Ubuntu from 11.10 to 12.04 I discovered an unexpected problem. The upgrade was stopped because there wasn't enough free space for the installation. I managed to free some space and do the upgrade but now a prompt appears after logging in saying I'm out of space. This prompt asks me if I want to examine the problem. The "Disk Usage Analyser" is opened. In the top it says:
Total filesystem capacity: 47.0 GB (used: 13.5 GB available: 33.4 GB)
Folder -- Usage -- Size
/ -- 100% -- 12.5 GB
usr -- 44.8 % -- 5.6 GB
home -- 30.3 % -- 3.8 GB
lib -- 13.0 % -- 1.6 GB
var -- 9.1 % -- 1.1 GB
boot 2.5 % 309.5 GB
and a lot of small contributors like: etc, opt, sbin, bin etc.
I do not really understand this problem since the analyser in the top says that I have 33.4 GB left in this file system. What can I do to make Ubuntu use the remaining space?
Running
df -i
in the terminal gives:
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 610800 576874 33926 95% /
udev 213451 563 212888 1% /dev
tmpfs 218524 486 218038 1% /run
none 218524 3 218521 1% /run/lock
none 218524 7 218517 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda8 2264752 16371 2248381 1% /home
What does this mean?
