Another alternative is simply to create a directory under /usr/local such as /usr/local/tmp and then do:
apt-get dist-upgrade -o dir::cache=/usr/local/tmp That will use the (for most people) much larger USR partition and will give you plenty of space to upgrade. That worked good for me until I got mostly fully upgraded to potato, and now I use /var again because I am only upgrading 15-20 packages at a time. regards, Todd On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Andrew Hately wrote: > "David J. Kanter" wrote: > > > > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive > > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade. > > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because > > I've got plenty of available drive space, but what set-up files will I have > > to modify to make sure things go smoothly? > > > > I assume I'll have to change fstab. But then do I have to move all contents > > of the current /var to the new /var? Could I create the new partition using > > a temporary name, move all the /var stuff to it, then rename it to /var? > > Thats what I would suggest. > Stop everything you can, copy the contents and do the final swapover in one > line, just in case > # mv /var /old_var ; mv /new_var /var > > Another alternative is to create a whole new, bigger, root partition, copy > everyting to that, boot it from a rescue floppy and once there > 1) make it bootable, fix up /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo > 2) remove the original root partition and replace it with an enlarged > verion. > It depends what else you've got on the disk, how much time you have, etc. > > Andrew > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >