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Belitsky.A

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From: Russia, Zelenograd

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 57

[solved] can't install intel-ucode, pacman says there is no free space

I've installed Arch on my new SSD. It has a separate partition for /boot. Now I try to install intel-ucode but I can't:

> sudo pacman -S intel-ucode
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...

Packages (1) intel-ucode-20151106-1

Total Installed Size:  0.67 MiB

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 
(1/1) checking keys in keyring                                                                                 [##################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity                                                                               [##################################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                                                                                    [##################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                                                                              [##################################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space                                                                            [##################################################################] 100%
error: Partition /boot too full: 5593 blocks needed, 2392 blocks free
error: not enough free disk space
error: failed to commit transaction (not enough free disk space)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

But actually there is enough space in it:

> du -sh /boot 
94M     /boot

What's wrong here?

Last edited by Belitsky.A (2016-02-13 16:44:47)

elkoraco

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Registered: 2013-02-18

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Re: [solved] can't install intel-ucode, pacman says there is no free space

We don't know how big your boot partition is. How about

df -h /boot

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Re: [solved] can't install intel-ucode, pacman says there is no free space

But actually there is enough space in it:

> du -sh /boot 
94M     /boot

What's wrong here?

I think you're misunderstanding what 'du' tells you. It tells you the current usage, not the availability, of space.

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Belitsky.A

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From: Russia, Zelenograd

Registered: 2008-01-10

Posts: 57

Re: [solved] can't install intel-ucode, pacman says there is no free space

Thanks for the hint, I just was confused.