Re: What temporary space does aptitude use?
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 14:58:28 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> When aptitude is upgrading a system, it first downloads a whole lot of
> packages into cache, and then installs them. This means there has to be
> enough disk spoace somewhere for both the old system and the downloaded
> packages.
>
> I need to ensure that I reserve enough space for the lenny->squeeze
> upgrade.
>
> In which file system does it place this probably huge cache?
>
> Is there other temporary space usage I need to watch out for?
Hum... I hate replying a question with another question but, does this
help?
4.4.3. Make sure you have sufficient space for the upgrade
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#sufficient-space
Greetings,
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Camaleón
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