On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 04:21:13PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > When I installed Debian on my laptop I chose the option > to set up various separate file systems. Should have followed the KISS > principle! > > Anyway, I downloaded AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i386.deb from the Adobe > web site and tried to install it with dpkg -i > but I get this result. > > Unpacking adobereader-enu (from AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i386.deb (--install): > failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1): > backend dpkg-deb during > `./opt/Adobe/Reader8/Reader/intellinux/plug_ins/EScript.api': No space > left on device > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i386.deb > > The root partition is out of space and suspect that is the problem, but > what do I know! > > Any way, does anybody know how I can fis this problem or change the sizes > of my file systems without a reinstall?
can you reply with
df --si
cat /proc/partitions
lvs
you could try apt-get clean (clear away the apt cache ?)
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> Many TIA!
> Dennis
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