I had a similar problem and I found the Hard Disk Upgrade mini-HOWTO to be
much helpful.
I hope that such a reference is acceptable by you, though it is not a direct
answer. Some few weeks ago someone replied to me quite rudely when I answered
him this way. I find such references to be of much
Another alternative is simply to create a directory under /usr/local such
as /usr/local/tmp and then do:
apt-get dist-upgrade -o dir::cache=/usr/local/tmp
That will use the (for most people) much larger USR partition
and will give you plenty of space to upgrade. That worked good for
me until I g
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Andrew Hately wrote:
> "David J. Kanter" wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive
> > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade.
> > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partit
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > # mv /var /old_var ; mv /new_var /var
>
> NO, NO, NO, NO, NO!
>
> Do NOT use mv! This will change the ownership and protection rights
> of the files. That could be very, very bad and will most certainly break
> something.
Oops. I missed out:
First make
"David J. Kanter" wrote:
>
> I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive
> space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade.
> What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because
> I've got plenty of available drive spac
I wrote:
> 6. Now, use "cp -a" (or "cp -av" if you want to watch it) to copy your
>files, permissions and ownership to the new partition.
>
>cp -av /var/* /var
>
PS
That command should be:
cp -av /oldvar/* /var
> "David J. Kanter" wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive
> > space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade.
> > What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition becaus
e
> > I've got plenty of availab
"David J. Kanter" wrote:
>
> I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive
> space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade.
> What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because
> I've got plenty of available drive spac
I'd like to make a new partition for /var because I don't have enough drive
space where /var is currently mounted (/) to run apt-get dist-upgrade.
What's the best way of doing this? I can create a new /var partition because
I've got plenty of available drive space, but what set-up files will I have
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