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I just updated debian and upon reboot and login i get this (feddit.rocks)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If you can boot into terminal session, e.g. by pressing Ctrl + Alt + F2, you can try:

sudo apt clean
sudo apt -f install
sudo apt clean
sudo apt dist-upgrade
sudo apt clean

If sudo apt -f install doesn't work properly, you can create an apt-cache folder on, e.g. your home partition, assuming this is the one with sufficient amounts of free storage.

sudo apt clean
sudo mkdir /home/apt-cache
sudo nano /etc/fstab

In the fstab you specify where this directory shall be mounted:

/home/apt-cache    /var/cache/apt/archives    none    bind    0    0

Now you copy the files in place and mount the partition:

sudo cp -r /var/cache/apt/archives/* /home/apt-cache
sudo mount -a

Nou you should be able to run the fix-installation and update commands without the errors:

sudo apt -f install
sudo apt dist-upgrade

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I booted into i3!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This means good news?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yes so what now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Do you have sufficient disk space now? Or did the mounting procedure work? Did sudo apt -f install work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Mounting and sudo apt -f install worked. So does stuff install in /home/apt-cache now? I do want to combine / and /home

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My recommendation would be to copy your entire home directory with rsync -a onto another (external) drive, as you anyway don't want to modify your partitions without having a backup. Then boot into a live distribution and open a partition editor, delete the home partition (the data on it will be lost), expand the root partition (/) onto the entire disk. Finally copy the backup back into the home folder using rsync -a

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ok. Does rync -a copy hardlinks

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

No, only softlinks. See it's man page. AfaIk, rsync -a is usually used for backup.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

-H can tho