<div class="gmail_quote">On 4 November 2012 23:31, Steve Kemp <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve@steve.org.uk" target="_blank">steve@steve.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


 The *simplest* approach would be to make /var/cache/apt/ a symlink to<br>
 /home/apt/<br></blockquote><div><br>That's true. I simply hadn't thought of that. <br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  That way the downloaded files will go to the partition that has the<br>
 space, and avoids repartitioning which will be hard to guide a user<br>
 through remotely.<br></blockquote></div><br>Sold.<br><br>Nigel, is that enough information for you, or do you need detailed commands?<br><br>D<br>