Brian Masinick
@BobC: If the total available size is 15 GB, then redistribute the file systems you’re using a bit. 4GB is needed for swap unless you do not use double the size of memory for your swap partition (but that can affect hibernation and suspend operations. Perhaps you can increase the home partition by 1-2 GB and subtract a small amount from the root so that it all fits, or if possible, grant 20-30 GB, then enlarge the space of root and home. Then you should have plenty of room.
For what it’s worth I have a 10 GB partition on my hard drive and I’m only using 25% of it (except perhaps in the middle of in-memory updates that add disk space temporarily). I’ve used moderate-sized root and home partitions when I’ve run live. Big updates can fill up volatile memory in such configurations; more than likely that is where it is actually having a problem. 2 GB isn’t a huge amount to easily handle big in memory package updates.
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