On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2012-03-27 02:08 +0200, GoOSSBears wrote: > >> Have Debian Wheezy installed and recently performed an 'apt-get upgrade' to >> kernel 3.2.0 (3.2.0-2-686-pae in full). >> The system is a single-boot/Debian-only x86 machine with an >> intentionally-limited 400MB root partition (/), besides larger and >> separate partitions of /var, /usr, /home, /opt, /tmp, and swap. >> >> Before the 'apt-get upgrade', the root partition took up approximately >> 230MB space out of the 400MB initially allocated for this. >> Following the upgrade, the root partition is now 305MB full (~76% used >> up), with /lib taking up more than 250MB of this space. >> This system uses an initrd to boot its kernel (initrd.img-3.2.0-2-686-pae). >> >> Don't wish to mess up the current partition table, but *DO* wish to >> eventually upgrade the system with a higher kernel version, so.... >> ===> Which files and folders can one successfully mv out of /lib to a >> larger partition of a similar filesystem, i.e., through >> space-conserving symlinks (ln -sf), to reduce the size imprint of /lib > > Unless you have a way to mount that separate filesystem very early in > the boot process, this is hardly possible. > >> Any good ideas for this short of an absolute necessity to resize the root >> partition? > > Try a recent version of dracut, it should be able to mount /usr from the > initramfs. Unfortunately, initramfs-tools currently lackš this ability. > > š http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652459
+1 for dracut with a new, separate "/usr" partition. If you do install dracut, make sure that you have console-data installed (I've filed a bug report for dracut to depend on console-data) as well as bzip2 (a colleague ran into this but I have no idea whether he filed a report). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SwNxEs5bmnj3k0SxYSs=xdfumsbxuh_eea9c+yey4w...@mail.gmail.com
