I too gave /var 30MB when installing Debian for the 1st time. I think it is worth mentioning because I took this figure from the Debian-FAQ. I think it should be changed before potato is released. In view of today disk sizes I would change it to 100MB. Some other changes I would do for the figures are to change the 450MB that is recommended there for /usr to 750MB; and 50MB for the swap to 100MB.
> David J Kanter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > DJK> When attempting to upgrade, in pieces, from Slink to Potato, I > DJK> got this error message when typing apt-get dist-upgrade: > DJK> > DJK> E: Sorry, you don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ > DJK> > DJK> Do I have too small a partition, is that the problem? What can I > DJK> do to fix this? > > That could be part of the problem, yeah; the first time I installed > Debian I only put 30MB in /var and learned to regret that pretty > quickly. Possible options include: > > -- Run 'apt-get clean', if you haven't, to get rid of stale package > files you don't really need. > > -- 'apt-get install' particular packages out of unstable; this will > download all of their dependencies as well. > > -- Symbolically link a directory on a larger partition to > /var/cache/apt/archives. > > -- Mount a bigger/different disk on /var/cache/apt/archives. > > -- Repartition so you have a bigger /var (bleah!). > > The third option here is probably the easiest and most likely to be > productive. > > -- > David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://donut.mit.edu/dmaze/ > "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." > -- Abra Mitchell > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
