Upgrading to 10alpha

[John Summerfield]

Chuck Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 09:13:40AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Jerry Amundson wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:38 PM, John Summerfield
>>> <debian at herakles.homelinux.org> wrote:
>>>> What it wants is to download 1.7 Gbytes of stuff. I don't have that much
>>>> free space[1], but mounting a USB drive is possible.
>>> You've left out quite a few details if a 1.7 GB problem requires a 320
>>> GB solution.
>>>
>> See below, I need to buy a new drive and clone and retire the existing  
>> drive. There's no space for a new drive.
> 
> Well, another solution is "delete 1.7 GB of data".  You could for 
> example remove -devel packages (and definately debuginfo if you have 
> any):
> 
> yum remove \*-devel \*-debuginfo
And if my -devel packages are essential?
> 
> and if that doesn't give enough space, consider temporarily removing 
> some applications to free up enough space to do the update, then put 
> them back after, e.g.:
> 
> yum groupremove 'Office/Productivity'
> 
> Check for huge logfiles in /var/log and delete or compress old ones, 
> etc.
> 

My space vanishes in chunks of several gigabytes; it's chock fill of 
(not very functional) virtual computers.

I'm well-practiced at recovering space; if I need to resort to those 
measures, a new disk drive is cheaper.

The first step in recovering wasted space is to find where it's used. 
Deleting installed software isn't going to recover anything like 1.7 
Gbytes (it's about all of the installed software).






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John

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