[YLUG] can't free up enough space to upgrade Ubuntu

[nigel white]

Thank you all for these ideas.

I had a look at /tmp and /var but I've no idea what is safe to delete
and what isn't.

For the symlink solution: I am out of my depth, but is this OK -
ln -s /var/cache/apt/ /home/apt/
or is there more to it than that?

And after that, do I just merrily update, using Ubuntu's updating wizard, with no alterations?

And after I've updated, do I remove the symlink?

Thanks
Nigel



On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 09:53 +0000, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Steve Kemp <steve at steve.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun Nov 04, 2012 at 23:21:55 +0000, David Morris wrote:
> >
> > >    It may be that there is some rubbish in /tmp or /var that you can
> > dump.
> > >    If there isn't, the simplest solution to your *stated* problem would
> > be to
> > >    use a partitioningtool to resize the root partition, using some of
> > that spare space in
> > >    /home.
> >
> >   The *simplest* approach would be to make /var/cache/apt/ a symlink to
> >  /home/apt/
> >
> >   That way the downloaded files will go to the partition that has the
> >  space, and avoids repartitioning which will be hard to guide a user
> >  through remotely.
> >
> >
> I was about the post a similar solution - though I don't run Ubuntu so was
> unsure which directory was going to be used to hold the cache. Sometimes
> symlinks don't work and need a bind mount instead - so if the symlink works
> then you will be off and running but if for some reason that does not work
> then try a bind mount instead and when you are done then remove the bind
> mount.
> 
> 
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