On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 18:13, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > severity 221666 wishlist > tanks > > Okay, the reason is that there seems to be no space on that partition, > > but it grows dynamically. So there /is/ enough space. > > Why not use a tmpfs, which actually has a size and reports proper > statistics? I don't want to special-case this; apt currently doesn't care > about filesystem types for any other purpose. Oh. Thanks for the hint :-). With tmpfs it works. > > The easy solution would be to have a command line option to override > > that check. > > I think it would be even better if ramfs reported something useful from > statvfs; presumably it does in fact have limits (such as virtual memory > size) and knows how much is allociated. Yes, you are probably right. Thanks, Greetings, Oliver -- Cyclades GmbH - Everywhere with Linux Oliver Kurth Cyclades GmbH Research & Development Rennweg 33 Fon/Fax: +49 (0) 8122 90999-34/-33 D-85435 Erding
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