On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 08:29, Gary Turner wrote: > My var partition is 240M. As I attempted a dist-upgrade to woody, I was > told there is not enough room in the inn. > > What are my choices here? Must I resize the partition ( there is all > kinds of room in the home or usr partitions I could steal ), or could I > create a link into, say, home/debs? > > When setting everything up, I did not get the impression that var needed > to be all that large. Should I just bite the bullet, and start over--I > haven't gotten any production stuff on this machine yet. >
You can pass an option to apt-get to store the packages in your home, something like 'apt-get -o dir::cache::archives="/home/your_home/debs" dist-upgrade'. Probably apt will complain about a missing "partial" directory, so create one under "/your_home/debs". Hope this helps. Andrea
