Thread: CSSU thumb and exhausted root file system space
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michaaa62 is offline michaaa62
2014-01-06 , 11:36
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Originally Posted by ymartin59 View Post
I have also uninstalled bash4 and gdb, so that I have 36 Mb free on rootfs before upgrade.
But the upgrade process by "apt-get upgrade" still complains with "no space left on device"... after fixing with "dpkg --configure -a" and another "apt-get upgrade" it succeeded with only 3 Mb free on rootfs.

After reboot and some days, rootfs is now 38 Mb free. Strange, it looks like the upgrade requires a lot of temporary space that gets freed only with cron tasks.

My suspect is /var/lib/dpkg which was 44 Mb after the first upgrade failure and is now 16 Mb large.
If you do the upgrade via the X-Terminal, you will have to remove the downloaded packages manually:
Code:
sudo gainroot
apt-get clean
This is done by HildonApplicationManager, also via the auto-upgrade run in background or FasterApplicationManager.
Doing it manually may speed things up.