More trouble with the EeePC 901. Applying the recommended updates will rapidly fill all the available disk space. Removing packages doesn’t help because the underlying partition is read only and something called unionfs or aufs ensures that all user changes are only applied to a very small partition mounted on top of the read only partition.
A post at the Eee User wiki explains how to make the main system partition read-write and how to merge both system partitions. Unfortunately an EeePC 901 will break if you run the fsck command as explained in that post. And there doesn’t seem to be a way to recover without completely reinstalling the system from DVD/USB stick. In other words it also breaks the recovery partition so pressing F9 at startup and doing a system restore won’t help. The error message is /init: /init: 65 cannot open /mnt/dev/console: No such file.
I’ve decided to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix from a USB stick. I’ll repartition the system disk during the installation and hope that this will solve all my problems including lack of space, no support for WPA Enterprise, out of date packages and unused packages.
[Later...] Ubuntu Netbook Remix works very well. I’m running it on the full 4GB disk. Only 671MB left but that’s after installing my C, Python and Java programming environments and I still have the option to really remove the extra software such as games that Ubuntu installs by default.
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