HELP! Upgrading 22.04 to 24.04 - root disk space runout...

[Bo Berglund]

On Thu, 02 Jan 2025 11:59:09 +0100, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

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>Right now the process stopped for user entry asking "Replace the customized conf
>file etc/sudoers".
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>So the upgrade is on pause....
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>At this point I will not click any button if that means the computer is dead
>when it works its way through all changes and has no disk space....

I used this to check around.
SSH was off so I had to use the command line applet on the MATE desktop, which
is doable but not optimal.

Anyway I found that there was too little space on the partition hosting / so I
searched for a big chunk of userdata to move off to another (already mounted but
unused) partition. I found a devel dir that was 3.9 GB, which I moved over to
the intended home *partition*.

With this done I let it proceed with the distribution upgrade and no more
interruptions occured. :-)
It now runs Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS with kernel 6.8.0-51.52 as was the goal.

>Home is on a separate partition and there is lots of space available there, but
>I assume that the Ubuntu system will be on a single partition for / and that is
>the one partition too small...

Well, the intention was to separate home and / and I had made preparations for
it but not completed the job...
So home was still on the same partition occupying space.

I do have some notes on what to do when moving home to a separate partition so I
guess I will have to follow that and finish the relocation.
It will give me another 1 GB on the / partition.

This device does not have any Windows pollution and is intended to be a
single-system computer, so I will just fix the partition mess and then let it
run.


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden