Re: sarge netinst can fill up /v/cache/apt

[Jeff Green <jbgreen@frontiernet.net>]

Regarding the "how much is going to download?", I'm not sure anymore 
since at this point it is after the fact. From what I remember it was 
600+MB. I can do a "df" for you of the current state of the root 
partition for you (minus supplementary partitions).

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7             480M  225M  230M  50% /
tmpfs                 315M     0  315M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda8             5.0G  2.4G  2.4G  50% /usr
/dev                  480M  225M  230M  50% /.dev
none                  5.0M  2.7M  2.4M  54% /dev

I'm a bit unsure as to why that is important... i.e. you said it should 
have checked the size, but then you mention the unpacking (a deb at a 
time? all into the root partition?) might have blown it.

Regarding the squid, I'm assuming set up the squid on my machine. If 
so, how does that save me the download? (You're beginning to wander a 
bit out of my area now, I'm not an "established" sysadmin, i.e. paid, 
just a patchwork admin. Programming languages is more in my area...)

jeff

On Feb 23, 2005, at 9:25 AM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:

> Jeff Green <jbgreen@frontiernet.net> writes:
>
> > Possibly, but I've not had enough time to properly investigate
> > it. Indeed I had rebooted into the base install produce the aberrant
> > situation. (However, I had to use the 2.6.10 pmac kernel from
> > ppckernel.org to get it that far.) My setup is a 512MB partition for
> > '/' which has var on it and a 5GB one for '/usr' and then others,
> > i.e. not a partition for '/var'. Maybe this weekend, I can try it on a
> > spare pair of partitions to test various situations out, though I'd
> > prefer not to do an hour or so of downloading to find out the
> > results. Ideas appreciated.
>
> How much does it say it is going to download and what does df -h show
> as free on another console.
>
> An idea to make testing this feasable would be to setup a proxy,
> e.g. squid. And allow caching of larger files (default depends on free
> cache size and max 4MB iirc).
>
> MfG
>         Goswin
>
>
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