Re: Reducing size of /lib following an 'apt-get upgrade'?
On 2012-03-27 02:08 +0200, GoOSSBears wrote:
> Have Debian Wheezy installed and recently performed an 'apt-get upgrade' to kernel 3.2.0 (3.2.0-2-686-pae in full).
> The system is a single-boot/Debian-only x86 machine with an
> intentionally-limited 400MB root partition (/), besides larger and
> separate partitions of /var, /usr, /home, /opt, /tmp, and swap.
>
> Before the 'apt-get upgrade', the root partition took up approximately
> 230MB space out of the 400MB initially allocated for this.
> Following the upgrade, the root partition is now 305MB full (~76% used
> up), with /lib taking up more than 250MB of this space.
> This system uses an initrd to boot its kernel (initrd.img-3.2.0-2-686-pae).
>
> Don't wish to mess up the current partition table, but *DO* wish to
> eventually upgrade the system with a higher kernel version, so....
> ===> Which files and folders can one successfully mv out of /lib to a
> larger partition of a similar filesystem, i.e., through
> space-conserving symlinks (ln -sf), to reduce the size imprint of /lib
Unless you have a way to mount that separate filesystem very early in
the boot process, this is hardly possible.
> Any good ideas for this short of an absolute necessity to resize the root partition?
Try a recent version of dracut, it should be able to mount /usr from the
initramfs. Unfortunately, initramfs-tools currently lack¹ this ability.
Sven
¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652459
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