on Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:56:44AM -0500, kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com (kmark+debian-user@pipeline.com) wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:43:10AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
> <snip>
> > 2 => extended partition (the rest of the harddrive)
> > 5 => swap (256 megs)
> > 6 => /var (256 megs)
> > 7 => /misc (the rest of the harddrive)
> >
> > After a virgin install, I log on as root and...
> >
> > mv /home /misc/home
> > ln -s /misc/home /home
> >
> > What's nice is that when I go to a newer version, I can reformat the
> > 1st partition and install the new version. Then I log on as root and...
> >
> > rm -r /home
> > ln -s /misc/home /home
> >
> > And I'm back in business. And since I'm running my machine only for
> > me, mutt and slrnpull spool directly to my user dir.
> >
> > My understanding is that Debian loads a whole slew of packages in /var
> > during the main install and I need to have at least a gig of space. Is
> > that correct ? Which directory ? Is it possible to symlink that
> > directory elsewhere ?
>
> /var/cache/apt/archives is where your software package downloads (deb
> files) go. I have a seperate partition for this. My /var is about 500mb
> but /var/cache/apt/archives is 3gb. I 'mount' /var/cache/apt/archives
> under /var by adding the partition entry in my /etc/fstabs, and do not
> use a symlink. There are options to clean out some or all of the deb
> files (the 'clean' option) but I dont use it.
Why not? 'apt-get autoclean' will remove just _older_ versions of
archives. Not sure if there's a way to explicitly keep, say, no more
than tree prior versions of a package, but I could see that being
useful...
Peace.
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