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 lack¹ this ability. Sven ¹ http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652459 -- 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/877gy4ah5l....@turtle.gmx.de
