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

[nigel white]

It worked! Thank you all for your wizardry in getting the update to run.

Now to see if Ubuntu still crashes occasionally......

Best wishes
Nigel
Headingley
Leeds




On Mon, 2012-11-05 at 23:00 +0000, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Harry Mills <harry at haeg.in> wrote:
> 
> > You probably need to do the following:
> >
> > mkdir /home/apt
> > cp -a /var/cache/apt /home/apt
> > rmdir /var/cache/apt
> > ln -s /home/apt /var/cache/apt
> >
> > This moves the stuff to the new place, deletes the now empty directory and
> > links the new stuff so it appears to be in /var/cache/apt as expected by
> > the package manager.
> >
> 
> If /var/cache/apt still has files in it rmdir may complain.  So better may
> be:
> 
> rm -f /var/cache/apt
> 
> Also cp -a may slower than just moving the files with:
> 
>  mv /var/cache/apt /home/
> 
> which will move the entire apt directory to the /home/ location. Then rm -f
> will not be necessary as the directory will have already been moved to the
> new location.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Harry Mills <harry at haeg.in> wrote:
>         You probably need to do the following:
>         
>         
>         mkdir /home/apt
>         cp -a /var/cache/apt /home/apt
>         rmdir /var/cache/apt
>         ln -s /home/apt /var/cache/apt
>         
>         
>         This moves the stuff to the new place, deletes the now empty
>         directory and links the new stuff so it appears to be
>         in /var/cache/apt as expected by the package manager.
>         
> 
> 
> If /var/cache/apt still has files in it rmdir may complain.  So better
> may be:
> 
> 
> rm -f /var/cache/apt
> 
> 
> 
> Also cp -a may slower than just moving the files with:
> 
> 
>  mv /var/cache/apt /home/
> 
> 
> which will move the entire apt directory to the /home/ location. Then
> rm -f will not be necessary as the directory will have already been
> moved to the new location.
> 
> 
> -- 
> mike c
> 
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