Charlie Gibbs <cgi...@surfnaked.ca> wrote: > On Mon Oct 28 11:19:13 2019 Tony van der Hoff <t...@vanderhoff.org> wrote:
>> I've just attempted to upgrade from Jessie to buster. All went well >> until the dist-upgrade stage, when it ran out of space in my /usr >> partition. which has 14G allocated. 1.4G of this appears to be the >> doc/ folder, which seems excessive. It has, for instance all the >> language files, whereas I only require en-GB. >> >> Can anyone please advise on how to get rid of this chaff? > I recently updated a machine from Jessie to Buster (although I did it > in two steps, Jessie -> stretch -> buster). I too ran out of space in > /usr. My 500GB disk has two partitions: one for /home and the other > for everything else. Rather than fight with things any longer than I > already was (nVidia driver problems), I just used gparted to shave > 10GB off my /home partition and give it to /, enlarging it from 10GB > to 20GB. Problem solved. Another possible way of solving this (or working around the problem) would be to temporary symlink some directories to /home, for example /var/cache/apt/archives to /home/apt-archives (or something like that). Grüße, S! -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
