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not enough room on hard disk

Asked by davidzaq1

Hello,

I have Ubuntu 15.04, Dell Vostro 1500 laptop.

I am having some problems with the hard disk space. I tried to update the software but receiving
message that there was not enough hard disk space.

I think I got help with this before and went back to look at previous posts. I found something similar to
what I was looking for. I tried following the steps several times but every time I tried to update the software, I got the same message.

Can I get some help with this please?

Thank you,
David

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Vivid is EOL and no longer supported. I suggest you upgrade to Wily. Alternatively just wait till April and wipe Vivid off and do a clean install of Xenial from CD /USB. Xenial is LTS and supported til April 2021.

There are no updates for Vivid, just as there are no updates for Windows 2000

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#2

@actionparsnip:
according to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases vivid has still two weeks left (EOL date Feb 4th 2016)

@davidzaq1:
What is the output of the commands

uname -a
lsb_release -crid
df -h
dpkg -l | egrep ' linux-[hi]'

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davidzaq1 (david3a9x) said : 		#3

Hello,

Thank you for your replies.

First, I will update to "Willy" When it is available. Thank you.

Second,
Here is the output from the first command.

 uname -a
Linux Roo 3.19.0-42-lowlatency #48-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Thu Dec 17 23:32:15 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Output from second command:

$ lsb_release -crid
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 15.04
Release: 15.04
Codename: vivid

Output from third command:

$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 984M 0 984M 0% /dev
tmpfs 200M 22M 179M 11% /run
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 292G 163G 114G 59% /
tmpfs 1000M 160K 1000M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1000M 0 1000M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 236M 177M 47M 80% /boot
tmpfs 200M 52K 200M 1% /run/user/1000

Output from fourth command:

$ dpkg -l | egrep ' linux-[hi]'
ii linux-headers-3.19.0-37 3.19.0-37.42 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.19.0
ii linux-headers-3.19.0-37-lowlatency 3.19.0-37.42 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 3.19.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-3.19.0-39 3.19.0-39.44 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.19.0
ii linux-headers-3.19.0-39-lowlatency 3.19.0-39.44 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 3.19.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-3.19.0-41 3.19.0-41.46 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.19.0
ii linux-headers-3.19.0-41-lowlatency 3.19.0-41.46 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 3.19.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-3.19.0-42 3.19.0-42.48 all Header files related to Linux kernel version 3.19.0
ii linux-headers-3.19.0-42-lowlatency 3.19.0-42.48 amd64 Linux kernel headers for version 3.19.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-headers-lowlatency 3.19.0.42.41 amd64 lowlatency Linux kernel headers
rc linux-image-3.19.0-32-lowlatency 3.19.0-32.37 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.19.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
rc linux-image-3.19.0-33-lowlatency 3.19.0-33.38 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.19.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.19.0-37-lowlatency 3.19.0-37.42 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.19.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.19.0-39-lowlatency 3.19.0-39.44 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.19.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.19.0-41-lowlatency 3.19.0-41.46 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.19.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.19.0-42-lowlatency 3.19.0-42.48 amd64 Linux kernel image for version 3.19.0 on 64 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-lowlatency 3.19.0.42.41 amd64 lowlatency Linux kernel image

I hope this helps.

Thank you

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

As already written in https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/274075

You have partitioned your hard disk with a separate /boot partition of 236MB size. This partition can hold about five versions of the kernel image at the same time. Whenever the update process installs a new version of the kernel, this is additional and not replacing an old one. You have to make sure to delete obsolete versions yourself (e.g. with the apt-get autoremove command).

Try the commands

sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
df -h

and report the result.

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davidzaq1 (david3a9x) said : 		#5

Hello,

Thank you for your reply and for the help.

I followed the instructions given above and below is the
results of thee last command.

$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 984M 0 984M 0% /dev
tmpfs 200M 9.2M 191M 5% /run
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 292G 163G 114G 59% /
tmpfs 1000M 192K 1000M 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 1000M 0 1000M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda1 236M 135M 89M 61% /boot
tmpfs 200M 60K 200M 1% /run/user/1000

Thank you

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Best Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#6

The apt-get autoremove command seems to have deleted an old kernel, so the disk usage went down
from
/dev/sda1 236M 177M 47M 80% /boot
to
/dev/sda1 236M 135M 89M 61% /boot

I assume that this is sufficient to install a new kernel version.

You should not forget to periodically re-run that command.

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davidzaq1 (david3a9x) said : 		#7

Ok, thank you,

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davidzaq1 (david3a9x) said : 		#8

Thanks Manfred Hampl, that solved my question.