Update Manager gives "No space left" message

[felixlizarraga]

Running LMDE on a MSI Wind U100 netbook. It was running smoothly until now. Suddenly, Update Manager gives me a "No space left" message and refuses to install updates.

I thought I had unwittingly filled up the Linux partition (I'm dual-booting with Windows XP), but Disk Usage Analyzer assures me there are 34.1GB available.

Does anybody have any idea of what might be going on?

TIA

[zerozero]

we need a more detailed error message than that;
can you please open the terminal and run

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apt update && apt dist-upgrade

and copy&paste here all the output (will be a loooong output so please wrap it with code tags)

[felixlizarraga]

we need a more detailed error message than that;
can you please open the terminal and run

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apt update && apt dist-upgrade

and copy&paste here all the output (will be a loooong output so please wrap it with code tags)

Hey,

Thanks for the reply. Could you please indicate this newbie a quick way to use code tags?

[zerozero]

click the quote button in this post to see the usage

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this will be displayed as code; useful for large outputs or when we don't want to lose the formating

[felixlizarraga]

Hi I appreciate your taking the time to respond to my query. I have been hit with a lot of extra work for the past few weeks, so I have had to set aside my tinkering with Linux until I can get some downtime. I'll try to follow your advice as soon as I have a chance.

Thanks again!

[BucolicBuffalo]

Check and see if your Root partition is full.