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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 [email protected]Last login: Wed Oct 11 09:38:31 2023 from 172.16.0.96compdump:print:36: write error: no space left on devicecompdump:print:42: write error: no space left on devicecompdump:print:44: write error: no space left on devicecompdump:44: write error: no space left on devicecompdump:print:44: write error: no space left on devicecompdump:44: write error: no space left on deviceOne thing Debian introduced recently:
apt upgrade --without-new-pkgsand 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
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.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.
Oh, yay! I'm a helper \o/
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.
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.