If you can buy a new larger disk that might be another option. Another option would to image the current disk via dd. Then restore anything you needed from that dd image. If you need to restore just dd your backup image to the original disk. There is always more than one way to skin a cat.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Joshua N Pritikin <jpriti...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 12:14:15PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote: >> I think you're going to have to grow the partition. >> dpkg accounts for the space savings when it deletes the old rev. > > My latest scheme is to create two 6G or 8G partitions for the OS and > leave /boot and /home in separate partitions. When there is a number OS > upgrade, I copy the OS from the current to the new partition, switch my > OS partition via grub (and /etc/fstab), and do the upgrade. This way, it > is easy to back out if something goes wrong. > > Of course, this is not possible if your disk is too small. > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
