Comment 1 for bug 649345

I have been successful in bypassing this problem by reinstalling 10.04 from the live CD and using the Ext3 file system. Thus I get ERROR: Out of disk but the computer proceeds to boot and updated kernels have not caused the system to stop working.

The previous installation had been with Ext4 with the partition aligned to the cylinders as this allowed the installation to proceed successfully. However I guess the problem was something to do with Ext4 and updates not being aligned correctly at a very low level.

I hope this information helps.