Comment 11 for bug 106804

I am having similarish problems with not enough disk space but in my case it is the boot partition that has the problem. The main.log says that the Upgrade manager requires 41M free space on boot but my whole boot size is only 45M. This more than enough for all normal operations and I can have two or three boot images available without any problems. I have three partitions, /boot at 45M, swap at 500M and / at 92G with 85G still free. There was never any advice in any of the installs that /boot should be a minimum size to allow upgrade manager to function. Is there any way to use the large free space on / or is my only option to do a complete re-install from a downloaded CD iso? I paste in here the relevant sections of my main.log file:-

2007-04-21 20:57:34,553 DEBUG Free space on /: 90663870464
2007-04-21 20:57:34,554 DEBUG Dir /usr mounted on /
2007-04-21 20:57:34,555 DEBUG Dir /var mounted on /
2007-04-21 20:57:34,555 DEBUG Free space on /boot: 31030272
2007-04-21 20:57:34,556 DEBUG Dir /var/cache/apt/archives/ mounted on /
2007-04-21 20:57:34,556 DEBUG Dir /home mounted on /
2007-04-21 20:57:34,556 DEBUG fs_free contains: '{'/var': <DistUpgradeControler.FreeSpace object at 0xb4c506ac>, '/
home': <DistUpgradeControler.FreeSpace object at 0xb4c506ac>, '/boot': <DistUpgradeControler.FreeSpace object at 0x
b4c506ec>, '/usr': <DistUpgradeControler.FreeSpace object at 0xb4c506ac>, '/': <DistUpgradeControler.FreeSpace obje
ct at 0xb4c506ac>, '/var/cache/apt/archives/': <DistUpgradeControler.FreeSpace object at 0xb4c506ac>}'
2007-04-21 20:57:34,819 DEBUG dir '/var/cache/apt/archives/' needs '614975078.0' of '<DistUpgradeControler.FreeSpac
e object at 0xb4c506ac>' (90663870464.000000)
2007-04-21 20:57:34,820 DEBUG dir '/usr' needs '349130752.0' of '<DistUpgradeControler.FreeSpace object at 0xb4c506
ac>' (90048895386.000000)
2007-04-21 20:57:34,820 DEBUG dir '/usr' needs '52428800' of '<DistUpgradeControler.FreeSpace object at 0xb4c506ac>
' (89699764634.000000)
2007-04-21 20:57:34,820 DEBUG dir '/boot' needs '41943040' of '<DistUpgradeControler.FreeSpace object at 0xb4c506ec
>' (31030272.000000)
2007-04-21 20:57:34,820 ERROR not enough free space on /boot (missing 10.9M)