Not enough disk space

noelc · 10-08-2011, 05:29 PM

Can anyone tell me why I get an error message saying there's not enough disk space when I try to install updates. I,m running Ubuntu 10.4.

How can i fix fix this

TobiSGD · 10-08-2011, 05:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by noelc

Can anyone tell me why I get an error message saying there's not enough disk space when I try to install updates. I,m running Ubuntu 10.4.

How can i fix fix this

May be this is because you don't have enough disk space to install the updates.
Please post the output of

Code:

df -h

noelc · 10-09-2011, 04:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

May be this is because you don't have enough disk space to install the updates.
Please post the output of

Code:

df -h

Well in previous version I could open a terminal and run this command. Now I wouldn't have a clue on how to open a terminal

jdkaye · 10-09-2011, 04:33 AM

Can you log in from Recovery Mode (I assume Ubuntu gives you that in the grub menu) and try the command from the virtual terminal?
ciao,
jdk

fukawi1 · 10-09-2011, 04:34 AM

ctrl + alt + F2 should get you a terminal,
same + Fx, im not sure which ubuntu uses, but it will be 1-8,
should get you a terminal in the event you cant find it on your DE's menu, or the DE has crashed

colucix · 10-09-2011, 04:39 AM

Which desktop manager is running on your system? If GNOME you can also press Alt+F2 and type gnome-terminal.

noelc · 10-11-2011, 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TobiSGD

May be this is because you don't have enough disk space to install the updates.
Please post the output of

Code:

df -h

user1@ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 455G 89G 344G 21% /
none 4.0G 708K 3.9G 1% /dev
none 4.0G 2.7M 4.0G 1% /dev/shm
none 4.0G 320K 4.0G 1% /var/run
none 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /var/lock
/dev/md0 89M 66M 19M 79% /boot

colucix · 10-11-2011, 02:49 AM

You have a low disk space into the /boot partition where new kernels are installed. You may try to install the updates excluding the kernel package. If it works, you need to make room to install the new kernel by removing the older (and unused) ones. Take a look, here (last paragraph: How to Remove unwanted Kernels from your system).

EDDY1 · 10-11-2011, 02:50 AM

I would assume that it's because you only have 19M left on /boot, I got that message when my / partition was full.

EDDY1 · 10-11-2011, 02:51 AM

Didn't see you there colucix