On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
>
> > Kent West wrote:
> > > Alternatively, could I temporarily mount /var on a different partition
> > > that has more space free?
> >
> > Better: copy /var/cache/apt it to an empty directory on a partition with
>
Kent West wrote:
> By "symlink", do you mean to make a filename "apt" in the original
> location that is a symlink to the new location? Would that be:
>
> ln -s /var/cache/apt /big_partition/free_space/apt
Actually, you need to reverse the last two partsof that command.
ln -s /big_partition/free
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> > Alternatively, could I temporarily mount /var on a different partition
> > that has more space free?
>
> Better: copy /var/cache/apt it to an empty directory on a partition with
> free space, remove /var/cache/apt, and symlink.
By
Kent West wrote:
> Alternatively, could I temporarily mount /var on a different partition
> that has more space free?
Better: copy /var/cache/apt it to an empty directory on a partition with
free space, remove /var/cache/apt, and symlink.
> My fstab doesn't reference /var, so I assume /var is
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote:
> Alternatively, could I temporarily mount /var on a different partition
> that has more space free?
Just symlink /var/cache/apt to your largest partition :>
Jason
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Kent West wrote:
> Wow, seems like a major oversight. Even though I'm not a programmer
> (yet :-) ) and therefore can't fix it myself, it's nice to know that any
> programmer COULD take it upon himself to fix it, unlike that commercial
> software.
Well the trouble is how do
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> > I've got 200+ MB of files selected in dselect for
> > download/installation, and I'm using the apt method. dselect
> > tells me that my /var/[something] doesn't have enough space free
> > and aborts. IIRC, the ftp method in such a situat
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Rafael Kitover wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:37:31PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > I've got 200+ MB of files selected in dselect for
> > download/installation, and I'm using the apt method. dselect
> > tells me that my /var/[something] doesn't have enough space free
> > an
Kent West wrote:
> I've got 200+ MB of files selected in dselect for
> download/installation, and I'm using the apt method. dselect
> tells me that my /var/[something] doesn't have enough space free
> and aborts. IIRC, the ftp method in such a situation allowed you
> to do a selective install at th
I've got 200+ MB of files selected in dselect for
download/installation, and I'm using the apt method. dselect
tells me that my /var/[something] doesn't have enough space free
and aborts. IIRC, the ftp method in such a situation allowed you
to do a selective install at that point; am I missing some
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