Re: How to get away with small /var partition
From: H. S. (greatexcalibur_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 11/28/03
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To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 03:00:01 -0500
Walter Dnes wrote:
> I've been lurking for a couple of weeks here. I started switching
> over to Debian in September because Redhat was dropping RH7.3 (their
> best distro ever, and it was damn good) and replacing it with bloatware
> and coming up with "version-du-jour" on a pace to beat Microsoft. I
> want to *USE* my computer, not be constantly upgrading upgrading
> upgrading. (Yes, I *LIKE* "rusty" and "stale" <g> ). Anyhow, on to my
> question.
Nice to know that, I am in exactly the same boat :)
> 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 ?
Yes, I have posted about this (within the last 7 days). I think you can
get away with sym linking to /var/apt/cache (I think, but please confirm
the exact path -- may see my earlier posts) to some place where you do
have space (maybe a bigger partition, or even maybe in your /home
somewhere).
HTH,
->HS
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