Re: woody->sarge failed: out pf disk space

From: peter colton (dotdebsarge_at_yahoo.co.uk)
Date: 06/11/05

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Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2005 16:46:22 +0100

    On Saturday 11 June 2005 16:49, Hendrik Boom wrote:
    > After 18 hours of upgrading on my very slow 100 MHz Pentium,
    > it ended up producing an unending stream of
    >
    > multilog: warning: unable to write to /var/log/svscan/current. pausing: out
    > of disk space
    >
    > The installation log file (made using script on another partition)
    > also contains complaints that other files did not exist -- presumably
    > because they were not created because of lack of space.
    >
    > There seemed not much point in continuing, since many of the package
    > upgrades were likely to have been damaged (unless aptitude is
    > very good at dealing with this -- is it?), so I cancelled the upgrade,
    > and am composing this mail on another woody in another partition
    > (my spare -- a backup of the one that failed to upgrade properly.)
    >
    > When I started the upgrade, my main 4G partition (which contained
    > everything except /home) was only half full. I thought I had lots of room.
    >
    > Just how much space is needed for an upgrade, anyway?
    >
    > Is it possible to bring this upgrade into a consistent state
    > (possibly by deleting lots of packages, or resuming with aptitude
    > after reorganising the disk space), or should I just trash it,
    > make a bigger partition somewhere else, copy my backup partition to it
    > and start over?
    >
    > -- hendrik

                    hello hendrik,

               did you clear var out for apt.
                     apt-get clean apt-get autoclean

                       hope it gibe you the room to upgrade.

                        all the best

                             peter colton 

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