On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 01:22:33PM +0000, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Trying to upgrade to Sarge and discovered that on my last reinstall of
> woody that I switched the partition sizes on /var and /home. Now /var
> is too small to hold packages when doing apt-get dist-upgrade. My
> question is: Can I resize the partitions without losing data? I have
> the Woody 7 CD install CD's and no Partition Magic.
>
> Please copy any response to lenc@ruralcomm.com as I can't cope with all
> the lists messages when subscribed.
> Thanks,
> Leonard Chatagnier
>
Hi Leonard,
The soultion is to create a seperate partition for "/var/cache/apt".
This can be on the same HD or a new one.
Then you add the info to /etc/fstab.
-Kev
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