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[–] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Without thinking or reading to the last paragraph of this article, I went and started a dist-upgrade on my pi.

Curious now to see if it still boots after it's finished.

Edit: Oops

~ » ssh pihole@172.16.0.1
Last login: Wed Oct 11 09:38:31 2023 from 172.16.0.96
compdump:print:36: write error: no space left on device
compdump:print:42: write error: no space left on device
compdump:print:44: write error: no space left on device
compdump:44: write error: no space left on device
compdump:print:44: write error: no space left on device
compdump:44: write error: no space left on device

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One thing Debian introduced recently: apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs and they recommend that before a full dist-upgrade. I think it's made a pretty big difference in the upgrade smoothness, eliminating some possibly-breaking package upgrades.

edit: I say recently but I mean new-to-me

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I haven't tried this, but maybe ssh -t "rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*deb" or something like to clear up some space would work.

[–] apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This worked! I've got it running on a 4gb SD card so it's no wonder it ballooned, but once I got apt cleaned up it's now humming along at 83% usage.

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Oh, yay! I'm a helper \o/

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have plenty of space, as the OS boots from a 256 GB SSD and a very minimal install. I may try to dist-upgrade after a backup.

[–] Engywuck@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago

As a followup, I just changed the repos and did the apt full upgrade. Everything works beautifully. But as I said, I had a very minimal headless install without any DE.