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2-Cent Tips

2-Cent Tip: Making space while installing

Chris Bannister [mockingbird at earthlight.co.nz]


Mon, 6 Dec 2010 02:11:52 +1300

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 06:30:23PM -0500, Ben Okopnik wrote:

> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 11:22:04 +0100
> From: Jacopo Sadoleto <jacopo.sadoleto at gmail.com>
> To: ben at linuxgazette.net
> Subject: 2-Cent Tips
> 
> Sometimes upgrading an Linux distro to a recent version, yields an "No space
> left on device" (usually /var);
> For those not willing to use a tool to create, resize, grow a partition, a
> simple artifice will do the trick:
> 
> CTRL-ALT-F2

Upgrading from within X should be discouraged.

> # mv /var /home/user/? <== or wherever space suffice
> # cd /
> # ls -s /home/user/var .
> CTRL-ALT-F7

I believe that would just be ALT-F7

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