Re: Update failure

["Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 01:59:19PM -0400, Richard Carter wrote:
 
> Up to now I hadn't thought that /root was full because as df -h shows below
> there is still some space left in /
> robin@redcube:~$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/redcube-root
>                       268M  215M   40M  85% /
> tmpfs                 471M     0  471M   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                   10M   52K   10M   1% /dev
> tmpfs                 471M     0  471M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda1             236M   28M  197M  13% /boot
> /dev/mapper/redcube-home
>                       136G   12G  118G   9% /home
> /dev/mapper/redcube-tmp
>                       380M   11M  350M   3% /tmp
> /dev/mapper/redcube-usr
>                       4.7G  3.4G  1.1G  76% /usr
> /dev/mapper/redcube-var
>                       2.9G  293M  2.4G  11% /var
> robin@redcube:~$
> However, now I understand that the remaining room is not sufficient for
> aptitude to do its work.

With separate /home, /usr, /var, and /tmp, 268 MB should be more than
adequate for /.  How many kernels do you have installed?  How many do
you need?  Unless you're a kernel developer, you should only need the
one that currently runs, and room for one to be updated.  

Doug.