NOTE: corrected kubuntu versions.

I was trying to upgrade my kubuntu 18.10 to 19.04 but failed due to a lack of free space on my root partition. I have different partitions for root and home directories. So I tried to free up additional space and according to filelight () utility I have already free space of 5.5GB which would be enough to do the upgrade. However, when I run the command df -h it shows only about 3.9GB of free space.

So, why are the numbers so different? How can I achieve df -h showing the correct size of free space on the root partition?

I think, that the upgrade process internally uses df -h to calculate the amount of free space and that's the reason why cannot upgrade my system.

Any help appreciated. If you have any questions, please ask!

Kind regards, Max.

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Thanks for all the comments and hints! I finally fixed the problem using tune2fs by resetting all reserved blocks on my root partition and now df -h also reports 5.5GB of free space

sudo tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdb1

This source also helped me a lot.

The solutio here is:

sudo resize2fs /dev/sda3

Dolphin and

df -h /home/

Showing the same values

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