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Re: Upgrading Kernel - Out of Disk Space



On Thursday 12 February 2015 11:31:43 Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Thursday 12 February 2015 09:46:35 Jochen Spieker wrote:
> > > I'm not sure why the automatic partitioner didn't provide
> > > for enough space for future updates. See below for the relevant logs.
> > 
> > There's been several complaints about similar issues on this list. I am
> > not sure whether there were any recent changes in debian-installer to
> > solve that. Now there's still time to report bugs before jessie is
> > released.
> 
> This has gone on for years, ever since I have installed Debian.  Someone
> (some people) among the debian-installer developers must, I think, regard
> it as a feature, not a bug.  It forced me into manual partitioning several
> versions back.  Before that, I used to solve the problem by partitioning
> with the PCLinuxOS installer before installing Debian.  At that time, I
> couldn't understand dedicated partitioners. ;-)
> 
> Lisi

Yeah, yeah. The partitioner provides ridiculous scheme.
I moved my root to another disk partition so I can keep more than one kernel.
Since the partitioner gave most all the 1 terra to /home, I have /opt and 
/usr/local bound to directories on that partition. Really absurd.


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