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 |
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> 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