Frodo Baggins wrote: > > It's not exactly the same thing, but I'd like to give you a warn (I > know, I know, I sould signal it as a bug... I'll do). In the In the > "Installing Debian/Linux 2.1 for Intel x86" document they say, about > partitioning (section 4.2. Planing the use of the System"): > > [...] Notably, the Debian '/var' partition contains a lot of state > information. [...], you should usually allocate at least 50Mb for > /var. > > Well, I did it. I even allocated 128Mb, just to be on the sure > side. But during istallation it crashed. Infact, apt uses a > subdirectory of /var to put packages dowloaded but not yet installed > and at installation time you need a lot of packages.
apt-get downloads *.deb files to /var/cache/apt/archives, so you do need space there. It's not an apt-get bug, but it might be a documentation one. > Then it seems to me that there are only two alternatives: > > make an huge /var partition, knowing that there will be a lot of > unused space after your installation is complete, or > > don't make a partition neither of /var nor /usr, make a huge / > partition and let the system use the space as it needs. third alternative: - make a directory /usr/local/apt - copy the stuff in /var/cache/apt to it: $ cd /var/cache/apt $ tar cf - * | (cd /usr/local/apt; tar xvf - ) - after making sure that everything copied okay, delete everything under /var/cache/apt: $ cd /var/cache $ rm -rf apt # be careful with this! - symlink to the new location $ ln -s /usr/local/apt apt Now apt-get will download packages and they will go on the same partition that /usr/local lives on. Matthew
