severity 221666 wishlist tanks On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 02:47:29PM +0100, Oliver Kurth wrote:
> when the directory /var/cache/apt/archives is mounted to a ram disk > (ramfs), apt-get refuses to download packages: > > tammuz:~# apt-get upgrade > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be upgraded > bsdmainutils console-common console-data dnsutils gpdf > libdbix-searchbuilder-perl libdns11 > libisc7 liblwres1 libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libtool man-db > python python2.2 python2.3 > zlib1g zlib1g-dev > 18 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 9715kB of archives. > After unpacking 1148kB of additional disk space will be used. > E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. > tammuz:~# cat /proc/mounts > rootfs / rootfs rw 0 0 > /dev/root / ext3 rw 0 0 > proc /proc proc rw 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0 > /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /var ext3 rw 0 0 > /dev/hda6 /home ext3 rw 0 0 > /dev/loop0 /mnt/efs ext2 rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec 0 0 > none /mnt/rd ramfs rw 0 0 > none /var/cache/apt/archives ramfs rw 0 0 > tammuz:~# df /mnt/rd/ > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > none 0 0 0 - /mnt/rd > tammuz:~# > > > Okay, the reason is that there seems to be no space on that partition, > but it grows dynamically. So there /is/ enough space. Why not use a tmpfs, which actually has a size and reports proper statistics? I don't want to special-case this; apt currently doesn't care about filesystem types for any other purpose. > The easy solution would be to have a command line option to override > that check. I think it would be even better if ramfs reported something useful from statvfs; presumably it does in fact have limits (such as virtual memory size) and knows how much is allociated. -- - mdz
