On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 03:52:28PM +0100, Giovanni Rapagnani wrote: > I propose this text for addressing the issue : Thanks for working on this. > Remove the packages that have been previously downloaded for installation: > # apt-get clean > > Copy the content of /var/cache/apt/archives to the usb key: > # cp -ax /var/cache/apt/archives/* /media/usbkey/ I would skip the 'mv /var/cache/apt/archives'step. It might be wiser just to mount the temporary hard disk over at /var/cache/apt/archives. The original location will be "hidden" to the filesystem. Then, when the upgrade is finished you just have to umount the temporary hard disk and you don't have to restore (i.e. mv /var/cache/apt/archives.orig to /var/cache/apt/archives) This is my proposed procedure: > Disable the current archives directory and mount the temporary one over it: > # umount /media/usbkey > # mount /dev/sdc1 /var/cache/apt/archives > > After the upgrade, clean the disk and > restore the original /var/cache/apt/archives directory: > # apt-get clean > # umount /var/cache/apt/archives I think that would be the only needed steps. Notice that an alternate solution (if no external drive is available but there is sufficiente space in a current drive) is to 'bind mount' a new location over at /var/cache/apt/archives. For example, if /home had enough space you could also do this (untested, but would be done following from after the clean): # Create a temporary location at /home mkdir /home/temp_archives cp -ax /var/cache/apt/archives /home/temp_archives # Mount the separate space in the file system to replace the archive # directorio mount --bind /home/temp_archives/archives /var/cache/apt/archives [ upgrade ] # Unmount the temporary space and clean the temporary location umount /home/temp_archives/archives rm -rf /home/temp_archives/ Regards Javier
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