free disk space check could actually carry out suggested ways to clear space
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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update-manager (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: update-manager
Starting the upgrade from hardy to intrepid I get an error dialog:
Not enough free disk space
The upgrade aborts now. The upgrade needs a total of 1260M free space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 308M of disk space on '/'. Empty your Deleted Items folder and remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
[ Close ]
So I have to close the dialog, go to the Deleted Items folder and empty it, and then open a terminal and run "sudo apt-get clean". Then restart update-manager and restart the upgrade.
That's rather clunky - it would be more helpful if the dialog allowed me to directly perform these suggested ways to free up enough space, for example, something like:
Not enough free disk space
The upgrade needs a total of 1260M free space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 308M of disk space on '/'.
You can free up some space in the following ways - check the boxes next to those you wish to do and click OK:
[ ] Empty your Deleted Items folder.
[ ] Remove temporary packages of former installations using 'sudo apt-get clean'.
[OK] [ Close ]
If it's easy to do, the space each action would save could be given too.
Changed in update-manager: | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in update-manager: | |
assignee: | nobody → mvo |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | ubuntu-9.04-beta → later |
Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Michael Vogt (mvo) → nobody |
Thanks, that is indeed clinky. I milestone it for the next release.