oops spoke to soon...
just got an unrecoverable fatal error, aborting

failed to write status record about wget to /var/lib/dpkg/status: no space left on device.

sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)

battery is about half way... hopefully it last until i get home later on and plug it in... not gone try to reboot meanwhile

originally had 43mb on the rootfs