Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

[peter colton <dotdebsarge@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium,
> it ended up producing an unending stream of
>
> multilog: warning: unable to write to /var/log/svscan/current. pausing: out
> of disk space
>
> The installation log file (made using script on another partition)
> also contains complaints that other files did not exist -- presumably
> because they were not created because of lack of space.
>
> There seemed not much point in continuing, since many of the package
> upgrades were likely to have been damaged (unless aptitude is
> very good at dealing with this -- is it?), so I cancelled the upgrade,
> and am composing this mail on another woody in another partition
> (my spare -- a backup of the one that failed to upgrade properly.)
>
> When I started the upgrade, my main 4G partition (which contained
> everything except /home) was only half full.  I thought I had lots of room.
>
> Just how much space is needed for an upgrade, anyway?
>
> Is it possible to bring this upgrade into a consistent state
> (possibly by deleting lots of packages, or resuming with aptitude
> after reorganising the disk space), or should I just trash it,
> make a bigger partition somewhere else, copy my backup partition to it
> and start over?
>
> -- hendrik

		hello hendrik,

           did you clear var out for apt.  
		 apt-get clean                         apt-get autoclean 

                   hope it gibe you the room to upgrade.

                    all the best

                         peter colton