[AktiviX-discuss] dist-upgrade on an ubuntu box with not enough space

[theinnercityhippy at riseup.net]

hiya

if it were me i would create a new partition on the current /home disk,
copy /usr to there and update /etc/fstab to point at this accordingly.

As far as i'm aware, there are lots of binaries in /usr which will be
updated and changed during the install so i would want to keep it well
away from my home folder. That way, if something does go pear shaped for
any reason during the install, your home documents are shielded a bit
better from it and it will be easier to perform a reinstall.

Hope this helps

jimdog

> hi all
>
> i am trying to do an apt-get/aptitude dist-upgrade on an eeepc. the box
> has two [physical] disks, one is mapped to /, the other to /home.
>
> even after doing a sudo aptitude clean, there is not enough room on / to
> do it. doing a du -s /*, the largest dir is /usr.
>
> my thought was to copy /usr to the /home disk and symlink to it [as a
> temporary measure during the upgrade and then revert to normal]. good
> plan or bad? and what order to do stuff in. or am i approaching this
> entirely the wrong way?
>
> i would prefer not to do an install from scratch.
>
> r7
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