[plug] Problem with RH 7.3 up2date agent

[Bret Busby]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002, Colin Muller wrote:

> 
> If /var is on the / partition, try deleting some old logs you don't
> need from under /var/log and see whether that buys you enough space.
> 
> Colin
> 

du -sh on /var shows only 3.7MB is used by /var. The log files appear to 
be less than a MB in total.

I have a partition of about 1.5 GB, into which I tried to install 
Debian, but I could not get GNOME working, so the partition has been 
sitting idle, since this system build.

I have about 122MB used by my /home directory, so I will probably wipe 
the Debian install (I probably took on more than I could manage, with 
the Debian installation), and make that partition my /home partition, 
taking the /home directory, out of the / partition, and into a partition 
of its own, which should free sufficient space to prevent further 
problems with package updates.

I'll also try the apt-rpm method for updates, to find how well that 
works.

Thanks all, for the helpful advice.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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