Why does 12.04 upgrade abort with out of space error when I have lots of it?
- 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
The output of
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 9,3G 7,8G 1,1G 88% /
udev 993M 4,0K 993M 1% /dev
tmpfs 401M 884K 400M 1% /run
none 5,0M 0 5,0M 0% /run/lock
none 1003M 152K 1002M 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda8 35G 4,0G 29G 13% /home
/dev/sda2 101G 64G 37G 64% /media/A2C8E28BC8E25CD3
Running
sudo fdisk -l
gives
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000080
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 96389 48163+ de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 98304 210434488 105168092+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 210436094 312576704 51070305+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 306279288 312576704 3148708+ dd Unknown
/dev/sda6 210436096 214341631 1952768 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 214343680 233873407 9764864 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 233875456 306278399 36201472 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
