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finding more disk space

Asked by john

am trying to upgrade from 8.04 tp 8.10 but I am told that I do not have enough disk space available. I am using Dell Inspiron 6400.

I have follwed the instructions and cleared away residual configuration. The notice tells me that 101 MB is needed, so find 47 MB more. How?

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john (jaytee1937) said : 		#1

Not sure if this helps. df -h gives the following:

john@dell:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 70G 7.6G 59G 12% /
varrun 502M 112K 501M 1% /var/run
varlock 502M 0 502M 0% /var/lock
udev 502M 64K 501M 1% /dev
devshm 502M 12K 501M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 193M 127M 58M 69% /boot
/dev/sda2 2.0G 1.2G 891M 57% /media/sda2
tmpfs 502M 39M 463M 8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/volatile

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john (jaytee1937) said : 		#2

Not sure if this helps. df -h gives the following:

john@dell:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 70G 7.6G 59G 12% /
varrun 502M 112K 501M 1% /var/run
varlock 502M 0 502M 0% /var/lock
udev 502M 64K 501M 1% /dev
devshm 502M 12K 501M 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 193M 127M 58M 69% /boot
/dev/sda2 2.0G 1.2G 891M 57% /media/sda2
tmpfs 502M 39M 463M 8% /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/volatile

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Best Wyatt Smith (wyatt-smith) said : 		#3

Looks like your boot partition is getting tight on space. You should uninstall some of the old kernels that you no longer use. It is usually recommend to keep the current and one stable backup.

To uninstall the kernels that you no longer use, you can open synaptic and hit the search button. In the ´Search´ box put linux-image and in the ´Look in´ box select Name. Right click on the kernels you no longer use (2.6.24-16,17,18) and select Mark for removal. Hit the apply button and this will uninstall the unwanted kernels.

Hope this helps

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john (jaytee1937) said : 		#4

Thanks Wyatt Smith, that solved my question.