Quoth Douglas A. Tutty: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 12:42:06AM -0800, Ravi wrote: > > Normally the packages downloaded by apt are copied to /var/cache/apt/ > > archives/ . But I am low on disk space for root partition. How can I > > ask apt to download those files to another directory and use then from > > there for later use also. > > > > Where do you have space? > > This is a good reason why /var/ shouldn't be on the / partition. > Especially /var/cache (and /var/spool).
Another reason to put /var on a seperate partition is filesystem fragmentation - in Gentoo or FreeBSD, this can get really troublesome, because the compiles will totally _hose_ your fs if / or even /home are not on another partition - but even with apt's cache and all the things usually going on in /var (like logfiles, temporary files...), things can get messy enough. /var always needs its own partition, otherwise you'll see severe performance drawbacks... in Ravi's case, I would just back up everything and then re-partition correctly, or use LVM. just my 2c... Aleks
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