Re: Upgrade error that I don't know how to solve

mi <[email protected]> Sat, 16 Sep 2023 03:10:00 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.user.laptop
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> You need more storage available during the upgrade on whatever device ha=
s the /lib directory. Purging a package, as you found, may help, but is on=
ly a temporary mitigation. You probably need to increase free storage gong=
 forward, either by purging more (maybe much more) or migrating to a large=
r device. Running nearly full negatively affects performance and, in the c=
ase of SSDs, service life.
>
> It would help if you posted information about the distribution of storag=
e, for example, the output of
>
> df -h
>
> This kind of question is not peculiar to laptops, and the debian-user ma=
iling list probably would be a better place to post it, if only because th=
at is a more active list.
>
> Regards,
> Tom Dial


I had a little too less storage left and then found that debian had piled =
up older kernel versions that i don't need anymore. (It seems kernels neve=
r get deleted automaticly.)

Deleting the obsolete ones together with all dependent packages like heade=
rs and linux-kbuild freed nearly 30 Gigabyte !

hth mi