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Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such



David Baron a écrit :
> Now that the g++ business is largely behind us, want to start upgrading. 
> Problem is that with that darned partitioning by the Debian installation, 
> there is not enough room on /var to accomplish upgrade of such size.

Too bad you did trust the Debian installer instead of using LVM and
leaving some space available for future needs. Worth thinking about for
your next installation.

> What can be done about this?
> 
> Note that to get an /opt, I bind this to a directory on my over-sized home.
> Same for /usr/local!
> These need not be mounted at boot or before home gets mounted so all this 
> kludge is well-behaved and transparent.

You can bind|link|whatever /var/cache/apt/archive to a filesystem with
enough free space.


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