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

[mp]

I have never trusted a distribution version upgrade.

Unless you have a lot of custom setup it might be a lot easier to just
do a fresh install.

Also, if you do have a lot of custom set up, an upgrade might not
actually result in everything working fully anyway.

-mp

theinnercityhippy at riseup.net wrote:
> 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
>> --
>> r7 [at] aktivix [dot] org
>> gpg footprint: 600F B43A BBBD 3673 B785 E83B 9779 93CD 4DF5 C505
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