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Bug#221666: refuses to download if /var/cache/apt/archives is on ram disk



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

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