Second System results of 8.04 LTS to 10.04.1 LTS Upgrade **MORE PROBLEMS**
 

Folks,

While my first system worked very well doing the upgrade from 8.04 LTS to
10.04.1 LTS. I have hit another snag and for the life of me I can't seem to get
around it.


The Upgrade attempts to download the packages and reports there is not enough
space available and quits. It says to run "apt-get clean" to free up space. I
did that and nothing happens. I have also gone though the installed packages and
purged those that I know I do not need for the system in question. However that
still did not yield enough space. Currently df shows the following information:


/dev/sda1 3944620 1K blocks on the device 2848000 blocks used which leaves
897820 Available. The Update Manager wants some 1900MB more space!


If I try to uninstall open-office (all of it, since I don't need it). Synaptic
says that the ubuntu desktop and several other packages will be removed as well.
Can I ignore those or will it cause serious problems?


The only other space on the physical drive is allocated to swap (it may be a bit
large but I doubt that it is that big. Top reports swap to be 240932k total and
currently shows 91840k free.


/home contains only 49420 blocks (as reported by du -s)

How can I obtain the required amount of space?
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On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> While my first system worked very well doing the upgrade from 8.04 LTS to
> 10.04.1 LTS. I have hit another snag and for the life of me I can't seem to
> get around it.
>
> The Upgrade attempts to download the packages and reports there is not
> enough space available and quits. It says to run "apt-get clean" to free up
> space. I did that and nothing happens. I have also gone though the installed
> packages and purged those that I know I do not need for the system in
> question. However that still did not yield enough space. Currently df shows
> the following information:
>
> /dev/sda1 3944620 1K blocks on the device 2848000 blocks used which leaves
> 897820 Available. The Update Manager wants some 1900MB more space!
>
> If I try to uninstall open-office (all of it, since I don't need it).
> Synaptic says that the ubuntu desktop and several other packages will be
> removed as well. Can I ignore those or will it cause serious problems?
>
> The only other space on the physical drive is allocated to swap (it may be a
> bit large but I doubt that it is that big. Top reports swap to be 240932k
> total and currently shows 91840k free.
>
> /home contains only 49420 blocks (as reported by du -s)
>
> How can I obtain the required amount of space?

You could download GParted Live CD

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php

And then, booting from the CD, resize your partitions leaving a
reasonable amount of space on /dev/sda1, etc..

My /sys partition alone takes 6 GB of space on a very stardard
install, and my /home is elseware. I believe you should need at least
10GB for the whole system.

An alternative would be to install Xubuntu or another leaner system.

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On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi@gmail.com> wrote:

> My /sys partition alone takes 6 GB of space on a very stardard
> install, and my /home is elseware.

Sorry for the typo, please understand "/ (root)" instead of "/sys" in
the phrase above, and of course "standard" and not "stardard"

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On 16 January 2011 23:55, Jay Ridgley <jridgley2@austin.rr.com> wrote:
> Folks,
>
> While my first system worked very well doing the upgrade from 8.04 LTS to
> 10.04.1 LTS. I have hit another snag and for the life of me I can't seem to
> get around it.
>
> The Upgrade attempts to download the packages and reports there is not
> enough space available and quits. It says to run "apt-get clean" to free up
> space. I did that and nothing happens. I have also gone though the installed
> packages and purged those that I know I do not need for the system in
> question. However that still did not yield enough space. Currently df shows
> the following information:
>
> /dev/sda1 3944620 1K blocks on the device 2848000 blocks used which leaves
> 897820 Available. The Update Manager wants some 1900MB more space!
>
> If I try to uninstall open-office (all of it, since I don't need it).
> Synaptic says that the ubuntu desktop and several other packages will be
> removed as well. Can I ignore those or will it cause serious problems?

I don't think it is as serious as it sounds and it should be ok to
uninstall OO. Don't take me as authoritative on this however. Can
someone more knowledgeable confirm this?

>
> The only other space on the physical drive is allocated to swap (it may be a
> bit large but I doubt that it is that big. Top reports swap to be 240932k
> total and currently shows 91840k free.

Swap should only actually be used rarely. Are you short of RAM also?

>
> /home contains only 49420 blocks (as reported by du -s)
>
> How can I obtain the required amount of space?
> --

How big is your disk? you really need a minimum of about 8Gig altogether.
If overall disk space is the issue you may be able to get away with a
re-install rather than an upgrade, but it sounds as if you may be
pushing the machine to the limit. Perhaps it is time for a hardware
upgrade.

Colin

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On 17/01/11 08:43, Colin Law wrote:

On 16 January 2011 23:55, Jay Ridgley<jridgley2@austin.rr.com> wrote:

Folks,

While my first system worked very well doing the upgrade from 8.04 LTS to
10.04.1 LTS. I have hit another snag and for the life of me I can't seem to
get around it.

The Upgrade attempts to download the packages and reports there is not
enough space available and quits. It says to run "apt-get clean" to free up
space. I did that and nothing happens. I have also gone though the installed
packages and purged those that I know I do not need for the system in
question. However that still did not yield enough space. Currently df shows
the following information:

/dev/sda1 3944620 1K blocks on the device 2848000 blocks used which leaves
897820 Available. The Update Manager wants some 1900MB more space!

If I try to uninstall open-office (all of it, since I don't need it).
Synaptic says that the ubuntu desktop and several other packages will be
removed as well. Can I ignore those or will it cause serious problems?


I don't think it is as serious as it sounds and it should be ok to
uninstall OO. Don't take me as authoritative on this however. Can
someone more knowledgeable confirm this?



The only other space on the physical drive is allocated to swap (it may be a
bit large but I doubt that it is that big. Top reports swap to be 240932k
total and currently shows 91840k free.


Swap should only actually be used rarely. Are you short of RAM also?



/home contains only 49420 blocks (as reported by du -s)

How can I obtain the required amount of space?
--


How big is your disk? you really need a minimum of about 8Gig altogether.
If overall disk space is the issue you may be able to get away with a
re-install rather than an upgrade, but it sounds as if you may be
pushing the machine to the limit. Perhaps it is time for a hardware
upgrade.

Colin


Hi,

I have just installed lucid (10.04) on what will be my programming and
test box on a old 10gb hdd (clean install not upgrade)! by the time all
packages were installed I was using 8.75gb according to properties in
nautilus! whilst I would recommend having a larger drive for general use
I never cease to be amazed that buntu will fit on such a small drive
when win7 takes up approx twice as much room for a basic install!! And
does a whole lot less!!


Regarding your issue the suggestion of gparted livecd would seem to be
the way forward available from: > http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php


from there you will be able to resize your relevant partitions (back up
all important data first as this can go wrong!!)


hope this helps

Pete



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