No enough space error when trying upgrade ubuntu from 8.04 lts to 10.04 lts
Dear all,
When I try to upgrade my ubuntu studio from 8.04 LTS to 10.04 LTS, exception as following occurs and upgrade interrupted. Insufficient disk space. 4153M free space under root directory "/" is required for upgrade at least. Please use command "sudo apt-get clean" to clean up temporary package for previous installation. I install ubuntu under RAID 1 and disk space information is as below. I have much space under "/home" directory. How could I use those space or move some space to root directory? /dev/mapper/pdc_dgbbagea1 Thanks and best regards, Flik |
Just 2GB for a / partition? No wonder the thing is complaining.
If you use ext3 or ext4, you could use gparted and do some resizing. Or you could leave / alone and use gparted to split your home partition into two - one partition of, say, 5-6GB for /usr and the rest for /home - copy the files from /usr to your new usr partition and then edit /etc/fstab. The first approach would be the more convenient one, though. In either case, you should copy/move the files in your home directory somewhere else to prevent data loss. |
I would suspect you need to actually grow the root itself - regardless of mounts likes /usr. The installer is probably too stupid to work it out (case in point: Fedora 13 recommend half a Gig for /boot :eek:).
You need to work out where the partitions are (physically) before you can plan how to move space around. Try "sudo fdisk -l" |
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It seems a bit complex, I build all partitions on RAID10. I could not adjust partition on RAID via "gparted". Could you please give some advice to me. Thanks and best regards, Flik |
I would recommend backing up your data to an external drive and doing a fresh reinstall of 10.04. This is the easiest way to take advantage of new features such as Grub2 and the ext4 filesystem.
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Thanks for all your kindly suggestion.
I have given up to upgrade Ubuntu. And I use Live CD to format the root partition since alternative CD could not format it properly. It works fine to me now. |
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