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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 cleanIf 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/fstabIn the fstab you specify where this directory shall be mounted:
/home/apt-cache /var/cache/apt/archives none bind 0 0Now you copy the files in place and mount the partition:
sudo cp -r /var/cache/apt/archives/* /home/apt-cache sudo mount -aNou you should be able to run the fix-installation and update commands without the errors:
sudo apt -f install sudo apt dist-upgradeI booted into i3!
This means good news?
Yes so what now
Do you have sufficient disk space now? Or did the mounting procedure work? Did sudo apt -f install work?
Mounting and sudo apt -f install worked. So does stuff install in /home/apt-cache now? I do want to combine / and /home
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
Ok. Does rync -a copy hardlinks
No, only softlinks. See it's man page. AfaIk, rsync -a is usually used for backup.
-H can tho