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Re: failed upgrade to Buster



Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@surfnaked.ca> wrote:
> On Mon Oct 28 11:19:13 2019 Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> wrote:

>> I've just attempted to upgrade from Jessie to buster. All went well
>> until the dist-upgrade stage, when it ran out of space in my /usr
>> partition. which has 14G allocated. 1.4G of this appears to be the
>> doc/ folder, which seems excessive. It has, for instance all the
>> language  files, whereas I only require en-GB.
>>
>> Can anyone please advise on how to get rid of this chaff?

> I recently updated a machine from Jessie to Buster (although I did it
> in two steps, Jessie -> stretch -> buster).  I too ran out of space in
> /usr.  My 500GB disk has two partitions: one for /home and the other
> for everything else.  Rather than fight with things any longer than I
> already was (nVidia driver problems), I just used gparted to shave
> 10GB off my /home partition and give it to /, enlarging it from 10GB
> to 20GB.  Problem solved.

Another possible way of solving this (or working around the problem)
would be to temporary symlink some directories to /home, for example
/var/cache/apt/archives to /home/apt-archives (or something like that).

Grüße,
S!

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.


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