On Tuesday 02 April 2019 22:05:11 Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings all; > > I have stretch about half installed. But everytime I setup synaptic to > install a few hundred of MY favs, and I leave to take care of my > invalid missus for 5 minutes, I come back to a shutdown machine, > blinking the green power led, and the job I sent synaptic to do is > only 5% done. > > Then I just discovered the default system partition is 30 GB, and my > wheezy / is closer to 500GB, so needless to say, 14 hours and many > restarts later to move all my data, the / partition is full, and I've > 60GB yet to copy. > > I'm going to see if gparted can rescue me, but in terms of time > killed, I'm likely time ahead to go fight with the installers > partitioner and restart this 20 hour project. > > But to have a snowballs chance it hell of getting it done this week > yet, I have got to shut the inactivity shutdown off, so how do I do > that as the first thing after the installers reboot? This machine is > the master of the rest of my local network, so its up continuously and > that isn't likely to change in my remaining lifetime. > > Thanks. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
And the gparted for wheezy won't touch it. e2fsck is too old. So I'll start a new install in the morning. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
