Comment 15 for bug 47092

I've now done a severe (but rather artificial) test;

I installed a fresh Breezy and updated it so that the update-manager etc were current. I then crushed the partition down with gparted so that it was stupidly small at 2.64GB.

I ran 'gksudo update-manager -d' and it (correctly) reported that there was too little space to install. It instructed me to add 115MB of space to be able to upgrade.

I then used gparted again on the same Breezy partition to expand it to 2.75GB, so just on the margin between too little and enough space.

This time 'gksudo update-manager -d' ran without a warning about space. Download of packages went fine. However, about three-quarters of the way through the actual install, errors began to be reported. The first one was about failing to write to a status record; although the message said the upgrade would abort, it actually continued for a couple of minutes and then really failed.

At this point the install terminal showed a message that there was no space on the disc. The install then aborted.

df confirmed a full disc partition. (/ on dev/hda3).

I will be attaching the /var/log/dist-upgrade*.log files as soon as I can get them off the machine. (The full disc means not all tools and networking are working properly for the moment...)