[SOLVED] flatpak update says "min-free-space-size 500MB would be exceeded"

Hey all.

Today’s routine “Software updates” broke for me. I’m only remotely familiar with Flatpak; please help figure this out.

The failure is this simple:

$ flatpak update
Looking for updates...
Updating in system:
org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale/x86_64/18.08 flathub dfa8ae0bd78b
com.github.calo001.luna.Locale/x86_64/stable flathub 0c4b1001e84d
org.gnome.Platform.Locale/x86_64/3.30        flathub d3ff07ad7633
org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.32               flathub 09eb4c452c16
org.gnome.Platform.Locale/x86_64/3.32        flathub f644ec34292d
Is this ok [y/n]: y
Updating: org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale/x86_64/18.08 from flathub
Warning: Failed to update org.freedesktop.Platform.Locale/x86_64/18.08: min-free-space-size 500MB would be exceeded
Updating: com.github.calo001.luna.Locale/x86_64/stable from flathub
Warning: Failed to update com.github.calo001.luna.Locale/x86_64/stable: min-free-space-size 500MB would be exceeded
Updating: org.gnome.Platform.Locale/x86_64/3.30 from flathub
Warning: Failed to update org.gnome.Platform.Locale/x86_64/3.30: min-free-space-size 500MB would be exceeded
Updating: org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.32 from flathub
Error: Failed to update org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/3.32: min-free-space-size 500MB would be exceeded
Skipping org.gnome.Platform.Locale/x86_64/3.32 due to previous error
error: There were one or more errors

I do have plenty of space available; this is not your plain ENOSPC.

What’s wrong & how to fix it?

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Damn. I was wrong. Indeed a plain ENOSPC; I just missed the root mount in pydf output.

After cleaning up enough space, the error disappeared.

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