Bug#37999: PROPOSED]: A pre-install required space checking mechanism for Debian packages

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

Hi,
>>"Karl" == Karl M Hegbloom <psu25682@odin.cc.pdx.edu> writes:

 Karl>  I don't understand this discussion...  Why, when I use `apt-get
 Karl>  install package', does it tell me how much space will be used after
 Karl>  installation, if that's a thing we need to add to the package tools?

        Does it also tell you how much spave is needed in /usr, and
 how much in /usr/lib (oh yes, I have that as a separate partition)?
 The new scheme would. It would look at your mounts (/etc/mtab) and
 tell you when a patition is close to being full (say, 95% full)/.

        manoj

        This is what my fstab looked like (removing the auto dos, and
 nfs mounts):

/dev/hda2		/		ext2	defaults	1	1
/dev/hda5		/opt		ext2	defaults	0	2
/dev/hda6		/home		ext2	defaults	1	2
/dev/hda7		/usr		ext2	defaults	0	2
/dev/hda8		/usr/lib	ext2	defaults	0	2
/dev/hdd3		/usr/local	ext2    defaults 	1	2
/dev/hdd5		/var		ext2    defaults 	0	2
/dev/hdb1		/opt/dce	ext2    defaults 	0	2
/dev/hdb2		/var/spool/mirror	ext2    defaults 	0	2
/dev/hdd6		/u		ext2    defaults 	0	2


        
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