Re: Erroneous out of space msg & fs corruption on W>S then KDE install
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:37:06AM -0800, tluxt wrote:
> I then started KDE & web browsed, that worked fine.
> I checked my df & had about 280MB free
-snip-
>
> I then did
> apt-get install kde
> It said
> 0 packages upgraded, 53 newly installed, 0 to remove and 19 not upgraded.
> Need to get 17.0MB of archives. After unpacking 52.8MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
>
> I think this process had some problem I can't recall.
>
> I think I then continued again,
> and here is where I got the error msg about being out of space, which
> should not have occurred since the estimated size was well below the
> available size.
The 52.8MB used isn't the total actually required to complete the
operation but I am not completely familiar with how dpkg installs
packages. At a minimum you need the space for all the packages (the
53 debs) it downloads plus the space listed to install (52.8MB). I am
not sure if you need double the space that the packages take unpacked or
if dpkg just overwrites on install. I think that 280MB should have been
enough free space though. 8)
Chris
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