On 2018-05-21, Mark Copper <mcop...@straitcity.com> wrote: > > No, I had not considered playing with any part of /var. With /var > taking less than 1 gb and /var/cache/apt/archives less than 1mb, /usr > had seemed the elephant in the room. Might that be a way to go? I just > need to get to Stretch for now.
There's actually advice in the release notes to that effect (along with other strategies for freeing or finding necessary space): https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html#package-status A command can be run that supposedly will warn the constrained user if she hasn't enough room on disk for the upgrade (this after modifying the /etc/apt/sources.list file to point to Stretch and running apt(-get) update apt-get -o APT::Get::Trivial-Only=true dist-upgrade This failed to work as promised in my case (or I failed somehow somewhere along the line), and I ran out of room during my upgrade, but bungled through. I will spare the forum the gruesome details of my struggle. The release notes even give detailed instructions as to how you might mount bind (or is bind mount?) a usb key as a temporary /var/cache/apt/archives directory. Good luck. > Thank you. > > --
