Subject: Re: /var and /tmp
From: Damien Hull (dhull@digitaloverload.net)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 10:15:10 AKST
Thanks for the info. I'll be running apt-get clean from now on.
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 19:06, James Zuelow wrote:
>
> 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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