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Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such

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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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Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-09-06 12:10 +0200
  Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2015-09-06 18:50 +0200
    Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-09-06 21:00 +0200
      Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2015-09-06 21:50 +0200
        Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-09-06 22:30 +0200
  Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-09-07 01:00 +0200
    Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such David Baron <d_baron@012.net.il> - 2015-09-07 09:20 +0200
      Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-09-07 10:10 +0200
        Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such dean <deanshannon3@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 11:30 +0200
          Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-09-07 12:10 +0200
      Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-09-07 16:30 +0200
        Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2015-09-07 17:30 +0200
          Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 13:10 +0200
            Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-09-08 23:40 +0200
          Re: Doing Dist-Upgrade or Such David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-09-08 23:20 +0200

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