Subject: Re: /var and /tmp
From: James Zuelow (e5z8652@zuelow.net)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 19:06:26 AKST
On 30 Dec 2002 10:01:47 -0900
"Damien Hull" <dhull@digitaloverload.net> wrote:
> /VAR
> I don't know how big /var was before I reinstalled but I think I had
> something like 99mb free. That shrank down to nothing after
> installing a few things. I don't remember what I installed that took
> up that space but something did.
Your depository of downloaded .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives
took up your space. They are not automatically deleted, and can
easily grow to 99MB.
`apt-get clean` and `apt-get autoclean` are the commands you're
looking for. (man apt-get).
Cheers,
James
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