On 07/02/14 14:07, Chris Bannister wrote:
> CC'ing debian-boot
> 
> Seems as though Roelof is now in space trouble.
> He says he followed the d-i's suggestions
> Thread starts here:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/02/msg00269.html
> 
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 01:08:39PM +0000, Roelof Wobben wrote:
>>> Was that the default partitioning layout suggested by the installer?
>>
>> Yes, it is. 
>  
> Not too good is it. Now look at the situation you are in. I think I've
> been bitten by that in the past.
> 
> It seems strange why more people aren't being affected by this, though.
> 
>>> I notice that you only have 85M free under / which includes /lib.
>>> e.g.
>>> root@tal:~# du -h /lib/modules/ | tail -n 3
>>> 81M /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-686-pae/kernel
>>> 84M /lib/modules/3.2.0-4-686-pae
>>> 84M /lib/modules/
>>>
>>> What does yours say?
>>
>> 127M    /lib/modules/3.12-1-amd64/kernel
>> 130M    /lib/modules/3.12-1-amd64
>> 130M    /lib/modules/
> 
> Ouch! 
> 
>>> So that 85M you have free is the problem.
>>>
>>> Have you got any old kernels installed which you could purge?
>>>
>>> root@tal:~# ls -alh /lib/modules/
>>> total 20K
>>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Oct 4 16:22 .
>>> drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 12K Dec 28 20:52 ..
>>> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Jun 21 2013 3.2.0-4-686-pae
>>
>> Nope, unfortunately not. 
> 
> Have you tried Scott's suggestion of using deborphan (provides orphaner)
> to see if you can free up some room? Although, I think you'll be lucky to
> free up the required amount.

Agreed. Though I'd try the following first just to check:-
$ deborphan -sz

Another possibility is to re-mount (or bind) /lib somewhere with more space

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Kind regards


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