Not enough space in boot to upgrade

Please open a terminal and please send us the result of

df -h

command.

Thank you

I also face the same problem while trying to upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 .. here is the output of df - h command

rama@rama-laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 2.3G 2.2G 1.2M 100% /
tmpfs 973M 0 973M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 973M 112K 973M 1% /var/run
varlock 973M 4.0K 973M 1% /var/lock
udev 973M 188K 973M 1% /dev
tmpfs 973M 344K 973M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 973M 2.4M 971M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
overflow 1.0M 12K 1012K 2% /tmp
/dev/sda3 98G 5.9G 92G 6% /media/disk
/dev/sda5 47G 18G 29G 39% /media/disk-1
/dev/sda2 49G 2.8G 47G 6% /media/disk-2

This is your problem:
/dev/sda6 2.3G 2.2G 1.2M 100% /

You have a very small partition for / which is limiting you.

If you can uninstall old kernels you will get some free space.

and the other steps I mentioned

Hello
I wrote an answer but I think I lost it with the upgrade...
So THANKS! number 3 of your comments worked, without
need to remove openoffice (which I actually use in its totality...)
but just going with the removal of the old kernels.

Thanks again!
cheers
giulia

--- On Sat, 11/14/09, actionparsnip <email address hidden> wrote:

> From: actionparsnip <email address hidden>
> Subject: Re: [Question #90218]: Not enough space in boot to upgrade
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Saturday, November 14, 2009, 5:44 PM
> Your question #90218 on gparted in
> ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+question/90218
>
>     Status: Needs information => Answered
>
> actionparsnip proposed the following answer:
> You can do a few things:
>
> 1. sudo apt-get clean
> Old debs mount up in /var/caches/apt/archives and are not
> cleaned out automatically so running this can clean stuff
> out
>
> 2. sudo apt-get --purge remove openoffice*
> OpenOffice.org takes up ~500Mb. If you uninstall this app
> and install Abiword (sudo apt-get install abiword) for word
> processing (takes about 10Mb) and install gnumeric (sudo
> apt-get install gnumeric) for spreadsheet functionality
> (takes about 12Mb space) you will save a massive amount of
> space.
>
> 3. Old kernels
> When you get a new kernel in ubuntu, you will keep the old
> kernels, even with a release upgrade. If you run:
> uname -a
> You can see your current kernel version. You can then run:
> dpkg -l | grep linux-image
> To see the installed kernels. You can then use:
> sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-<version>
> To remove the old kernel, do NOT remove the kernel which is
> running. Once all the old kernels are removed you can run:
> sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
> Each kernel you remove will give you about 120Mb per
> kernel.
>
> 4. Unnecessary packages
> You can save further space by removing unneeded packages.
> If you do not use VNC then you can remove vinagre, if you
> only use apt-get then you can uninstall software-centre. If
> you never use ubuntuone, remove the client. f you run:
> dpkg -l less
> and read the list (ignore any packages starting with 'lib')
> then you can remove unused packages and save more space
>
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Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.

Keep the space down dude, you don't have much to spare so you have to be economical with the apps you have installed.

I suggest you also review your installed apps and remove ones you don't use (Gimp is quite large too, you can uninstall it to gain more space)

Stuff like that. If you also run:

dpkg -l | grep xserver-xorg-video

You will see tonnes of drivers for tonnes of video cards you wil lnever need (they are quite small but there are lots of them so they mount up). A default install of Ubuntu is MASSIVELY bloated so as to appeal to maximum users and give a lot of functionality out of the box. Unfortunately this add a LOT of extra data which can cause issues like yours. Uninstalling them will free space nicely.

I also suggest you move /var/cache/apt onto one of the other partitions and symlink the folder back to its original place so that downloaded updates from the repos will be stored on the bigger partition, rather than using the space on sda6 which is quite small.

is there any way to increase the space allocated .. i have a lot of space in my harddisk ...

You can use gparted in a live CD to resize partitions to make one bigger and the other, smaller

Make sure you backup the data you need as the system comes with zero SLA and no promises. There are guides all over the internet regarding this.