On Friday 18 February 2011 11:54:31 Mark wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 7:44 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > <bss@iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > I'd say give yourself 4-8 hours follow the release notes though the > > upgrade. > > Did my first upgrade last night following the Release > Notes, and this is pretty much exactly the estimate it took for me. > > On a side note, my Lenny installation was 3.6 GB per clonezilla when I > backed up before upgrading, but 5.9 GB after upgrading to Squeeze, with > running apt-get autoremove per the Release Notes upon completion of the > upgrade. Am I missing a step after upgrading that helps get the footprint > smaller? Perhaps your package cache is still fairly big. (apt-get clean) might help there. Besides doing the auto-remove, finding "obsolete" packages and removing them can also help. In particular, I think linux-headers* and linux- image* are retained (for sanity reasons) even if they are marked auto but not listed as a dependency of any installed package. I use aptitude for that task. "obsolete" packages get their own section in the curses UI, to it is easy to mass-purge them. Be careful though, purging postgresl-8.3 before you migrate fully to postgresql-8.4 will definitely cause problems. So, make sure you are really not using those obsolete packages. My Squeeze installations are larger than they were during Lenny, also. However, in my case I think it is because I (after the upgrade) used aptitude to make sure all my Recommends were satisfied, which brought in quite a few packages. (Yes, I know I can auto-install Recommends, but many of them are OR'd dependencies and I like actively making the choice rather than having APT choose the default.) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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