Re: debian reinstallation
Vivek G. Bharathan wrote:
So I installed Debian in February and I've just discovered that my
/usr partition is much too small. I'd like to somehow set apt and
dselect to reload the packages I already have - is there any way to do
this without plugging through all the millions of Debian packages that
show up on dselect?
Thanks,
Vivek
Do you have a large amount of free space elsewhere on your system? If
so, you might can shuffle the data around and save yourself a
re-install. For example, if /usr is 1GB, and you want it to be 2GB, and
you've got a /var partition that is 2GB and it only needs to be 1GB, you
can swap the two partitions with a little work.
Of course, without the needed space elsewhere, you probably would do
best to do a re-install (or a backup/restore to tape, etc). In such a
case, there's some options you can feed to dpkg (--get-selections or
--set-selections; see "man dpkg") which I believe will create a database
of the names of installed packages; you'll still have to
re-download/install those packages, but it'll be much more automatic
than manually selecting packages via dselect.
Kent
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