[NTLUG:Discuss] Kubuntu upgrade question

[Dennis Rice]

Wayne Dahl wrote:
 > > Never saw this show up on the list, not sure why...but resending...
 > >
 > > This may be a stupid question, but every time I do something involving
 > > partitioning a hard drive, I never seem to get /var big enough and I
 > > have problems later...like, is there a way to tell Adept or Synaptic to
 > > download upgrade files to a different directory than /var/****?  I
 > > increased /var to 2.9Gigs last time I had to partition my hard drives
 > > (when I installed a new 300Gig SATA drive) and again, I find it's not
...

 From experience only, since the /var directory is used to store 
"variable" data, it must be of sufficient size to support different 
actions.  One often not taken into account is the system update.  I use 
yum, but assume the same is true for apt-get or other update utilities. 
  Processing of these update files is in the /var directory, requiring a 
sizable area.

I would suggest that the /var directory be no less than 5 GB for a 
starter, larger if you can afford it.  With a 300 GB drive, this should 
be no problem to allow 10 GB partition.

Dennis