On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 18:13, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> severity 221666 wishlist
> tanks
> > 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.
Oh. Thanks for the hint :-). With tmpfs it works.
> > 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.
Yes, you are probably right.
Thanks,
Greetings,
Oliver
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