On Thu, 17 Apr 1997, Lamar Folsom wrote: > > Francois Gouget writes: > > > Unfortunately in some cases it is not so simple to check for space > > > availability as /var may be on one partition, /usr on another and /lib > > > yet somewhere else. > > > > Should be doable. "df" to get all the partitions and their capacities, "df > > /var", "df /usr", etc to get the filesystems containing these directories, > > and a script to sort it all out. > > Does this mean that each package will have to list the space it requires in > every directory and the packaging software will figure out if each of those > directories is on a separate partition?
It does this already, doesn't it. I can see all the file sizes when I browse a .deb file in mc. > I have seen a user that had separate /var, /usr/lib, and /home partitions. > Please figure out how much space to report for postgres and how it will be > reported. df on its own produces a list of mounts and their available space which can be reverse sorted by mount. Given a file to install, a forward search for the first matching start of the path tells you which available space to decrement, because the most specific match will be found first. > I think figuring out how much space is required for the installation > may be more difficult than just doing 'df' on each partition and > "sorting it all out." This calculation seems to me to be just what computers were invented for. -- David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA U.K. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
