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I have a server and am trying to do an apt-get upgrade, and get the following error message. What does it mean?

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-27-generic_2.6.24-27.45_i386.deb: failed in buffer_write(fd) (10, ret=-1)
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Seems that your disk (or /var/apt partition) is full, try to free some space.

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I've got the same problem but this is my df -m output :

/dev/mapper/xor-root 322 267 39 88% / tmpfs 1004 1 1004 1% /lib/init/rw udev 10 1 10 9% /dev tmpfs 1004 0 1004 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 228 19 198 9% /boot /dev/mapper/xor-home 60884 22193 35599 39% /home /dev/mapper/xor-tmp 368 11 339 3% /tmp /dev/mapper/xor-usr 4694 2687 1769 61% /usr /dev/mapper/xor-var 2816 351 2322 14% /var

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