on Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 03:56:44AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:43:10AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > <snip> > > 2 => extended partition (the rest of the harddrive) > > 5 => swap (256 megs) > > 6 => /var (256 megs) > > 7 => /misc (the rest of the harddrive) > > > > After a virgin install, I log on as root and... > > > > mv /home /misc/home > > ln -s /misc/home /home > > > > What's nice is that when I go to a newer version, I can reformat the > > 1st partition and install the new version. Then I log on as root and... > > > > rm -r /home > > ln -s /misc/home /home > > > > And I'm back in business. And since I'm running my machine only for > > me, mutt and slrnpull spool directly to my user dir. > > > > My understanding is that Debian loads a whole slew of packages in /var > > during the main install and I need to have at least a gig of space. Is > > that correct ? Which directory ? Is it possible to symlink that > > directory elsewhere ? > > /var/cache/apt/archives is where your software package downloads (deb > files) go. I have a seperate partition for this. My /var is about 500mb > but /var/cache/apt/archives is 3gb. I 'mount' /var/cache/apt/archives > under /var by adding the partition entry in my /etc/fstabs, and do not > use a symlink. There are options to clean out some or all of the deb > files (the 'clean' option) but I dont use it.
Why not? 'apt-get autoclean' will remove just _older_ versions of archives. Not sure if there's a way to explicitly keep, say, no more than tree prior versions of a package, but I could see that being useful... Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Backgrounder on the Caldera/SCO vs. IBM and Linux dispute. http://sco.iwethey.org/
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