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Re: Dist Upgrade w/ Limited Disk Space (was: warning for potato-users: "stable" in sources.list)



On Fri, 19 Jul 2002 21:51:46 -0500, Elizabeth Barham wrote:

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>
>One quick question, though, how do you recommend someone upgrading the
>distribution if she only has a limited amount of disk-space in /var?

Had the same opportunity for improvement here.  Not enough room in /var,
but plenty in /home.  In /etc/apt/apt.conf I added 

Dir::Cache::Archives "/home/gt/aptcache";

Next time, I'll make /var ~500 megs.  For now, though, that has solved
the problem.

>
>I'd like to upgrade my laptop with a 2G hdd but my /var partition only
>has about 200 Megs available. I was thinking about mounting
>/var/cache/apt/archives via NFS but then realized that the link may be
>shut down during the upgrade. Any ideas or should I just stay with
>potato?

Just thinking out loud, isn't there support for "resume" on broken dl's?

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