apt-get -f install returns disk full error, but plenty of space on the drive topic

Hello Ubuntu gurus,

I'm running 12.04.2 LTS, and I've run into an issue with my server. I initially my machine running off of a 10Gb memory stick, but imaged it over to a proper drive a couple of years ago.

A couple of days ago, my server sent me a missive to my inbox:

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/etc/cron.daily/apt:
Cache has broken packages, exiting

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When running apt-get -f install to repair whatever package went awry, I receive the following error:

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The following extra packages will be installed:
  tzdata
The following packages will be upgraded:
  tzdata
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 126 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/439 kB of archives.
After this operation, 48.1 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 644187 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace tzdata 2014i-0ubuntu0.12.04 (using .../tzdata_2015a-0ubuntu0.12.04_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement tzdata ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2015a-0ubuntu0.12.04_all.deb (--unpack):
 error creating symbolic link `./usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Dominica': No space left on device
No apport report written because the error message indicates a disk full error
                                                                              Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/tzdata_2015a-0ubuntu0.12.04_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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A check of disk space shows plenty of space, and 48.1 kB shouldn't be a problem:

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r3lai@hargow:~$ df
Filesystem              1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/hargow-root  10579232    8624180  1417660  86% /
udev                      2014992          4  2014988  1% /dev
tmpfs                      404852      2372    402480  1% /run
none                          5120          0      5120  0% /run/lock
none                      2024260          0  2024260  0% /run/shm
/dev/sdc1                  233191      51552    169198  24% /boot
/dev/md0                1922730680 1739242556  85819012  96% /media/raid1

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Does anyone here on the internet have any idea what could be the problem?

Thanks,

Amadaeus