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Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade

From	Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade
Date	2018-05-21 18:50 +0200
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On 2018-05-21, Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> wrote:
>
> No, I had not considered playing with any part of /var. With /var
> taking less than 1 gb and /var/cache/apt/archives less than 1mb, /usr
> had seemed the elephant in the room. Might that be a way to go? I just
> need to get to Stretch for now.

There's actually advice in the release notes to that effect (along with other
strategies for freeing or finding necessary space):

https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#package-status

A command can be run that supposedly will warn the constrained user if
she hasn't enough room on disk for the upgrade (this after modifying the
/etc/apt/sources.list file to point to Stretch and running apt(-get)
update

 apt-get -o APT::Get::Trivial-Only=true dist-upgrade

This failed to work as promised in my case (or I failed somehow
somewhere along the line), and I ran out of room during my upgrade, but
bungled through. I will spare the forum the gruesome details of my
struggle.

The release notes even give detailed instructions as to how you might mount
bind (or is bind mount?) a usb key as a temporary /var/cache/apt/archives
directory.

Good luck.

> Thank you.
>
>

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making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> - 2018-05-18 01:10 +0200
  Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade bw <bwtnguy@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-18 01:40 +0200
    Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> - 2018-05-18 02:10 +0200
      Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-20 10:30 +0200
        Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> - 2018-05-21 18:20 +0200
          Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-21 18:50 +0200
            Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> - 2018-05-21 19:00 +0200
              Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-21 19:30 +0200
          Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-21 19:30 +0200
            Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Mark Copper <mcopper@straitcity.com> - 2018-05-25 02:30 +0200
              Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-25 20:30 +0200
  Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-18 03:10 +0200
  Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-05-18 03:30 +0200
    Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com> - 2018-05-18 13:10 +0200
      Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-05-18 14:10 +0200
  Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-18 05:00 +0200
  Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade ntrfug <ntrfug@cox.net> - 2018-05-19 16:30 +0200
    Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Charlie S <taoquester@gmail.com> - 2018-05-20 08:00 +0200
      Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-05-20 14:40 +0200
        Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-20 15:10 +0200
          Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-20 16:30 +0200
            Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-05-20 16:40 +0200
              Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-05-20 17:30 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-20 20:50 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2018-05-20 21:40 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-20 22:00 +0200
            Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-20 20:50 +0200
            Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-05-21 07:20 +0200
          Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-05-21 02:10 +0200
            Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2018-05-21 08:00 +0200
              Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-21 10:30 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2018-05-21 11:00 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-21 17:00 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-21 21:10 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-21 21:50 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-21 22:20 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-21 23:00 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-21 23:20 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-22 00:20 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-22 20:30 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-22 21:00 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-22 22:30 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 23:30 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2018-05-22 22:00 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Jerome Kutche <n9lya@uronode.n9lya.ampr.org> - 2018-05-22 23:40 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2018-05-23 03:20 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-05-23 10:30 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2018-05-21 14:20 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade David Baron <dbaron770@gmail.com> - 2018-05-21 15:10 +0200
              Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-21 16:00 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Miroslav Skoric <skoric@eunet.rs> - 2018-05-25 11:40 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-05-25 22:50 +0200
                Re: making more room in root partition for distribution upgrade Abdullah Ramazanoğlu <ar018@yahoo.com> - 2018-05-25 23:20 +0200

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