On Fri, 17 Sep 1999 07:30:37 -0500, David Starner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:38:29AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote:
Yes, either this or a FIFO expiration policy on /var/cache/apt/packages
which gets automatically applied when space
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote:
With this in mind, I think that having a configuration variable for apt that
would allow the downloaded .deb files to be put in a user defined place. This
way, if your /var is close to being full, you could, for example, drop it
into a
temporary
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 11:38:29AM +0100, Chris Rutter wrote:
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, David Bristel wrote:
With this in mind, I think that having a configuration variable for apt that
would allow the downloaded .deb files to be put in a user defined place.
This
way, if your /var is close
On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 07:30:37AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
one apt-run - nothing in the cache, slink - potato. /tmp is usually on
the / partition, which probably has less space than anything (and on
many installs ends up on the / partition - at least that's how I was
^
With Debian distributions, and small disks, I have found this to always be
sufficient:
/ 32M
/var 96M
swap 32M or more.
/usr all the rest
/home is a symlink to /usr/home
/tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp
For more than 150 megs of disk space, I have found this the best way of
partitioning.
Jonathan Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With Debian distributions, and small disks, I have found this to always be
sufficient:
/ 32M
/var 96M
swap 32M or more.
/usr all the rest
/home is a symlink to /usr/home
/tmp is a symlink to /var/tmp
So what happens to the stuff in
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Jonathan Walther wrote:
drives. But given they are in such a vast minority, the current scheme of
providing sensible defaults and popping the installer into a tool for
creating your own arbitrary partition scheme is really the best.
(at least, Im ASSUMING we do that the
BTW, one great thing about Linux is, fsck is incredibly fast compared to BSD
:-)
You haven't seen soft-updates on FreeBSD, have you?
Hi
Ship's Log, Lt. Steve Dunham, Stardate 160999.0113:
/var 96M
BTW, your /var might not be big enough to handle an upgrade from slink
to potato. (Depending on whether the source of the packages is net or
CD, I think.)
That's right, but I think it might be more a 'bug' in apt-get then
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 11:14:44 +0200
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* David == David Bristel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David With this in mind, I think that having a configuration variable
David for apt that would allow the downloaded .deb files to be put in
David a user qdefined place.
apt-get -o APT::Dir::Cache=/home/me/download/ upgrade should do it I
think.
On 16-Sep-99, 11:23 (CDT), David Bristel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
With this in mind, I think that having a configuration variable for
apt that would allow the downloaded .deb files to be put in a user
defined place. This way, if your /var is close to being full, you
could, for example, drop
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