Feisty Fawn upgrade failure : Microsoft-like behavior

[Nils Kassube]

Jonathan D. Graham wrote:
> Attempting to upgrade from ubuntu 6.10 to 7.04 and I get the following
> error in a popup:
>
> Not enough free disk space
>
> The upgrade aborts now. Please free at least 489M of disk space on
> /usr. Empty your trash and remove temporary packages of former
> installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
>
> But, this is completely wrong as df /usr reveals:
>
> /dev/sda5              4032092   2982116    845152  78% /
>
> So, 845M of disk space...almost twice the required space.

I would read it as "we need 489MB more free space than the existing 
825MB", i.e. you probably need a total of 1.3GB free space.


Nils