Subject: Re: /var and /tmp
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Mon Dec 30 2002 - 19:29:17 AKST
On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 10:15, Damien Hull wrote:
>
> 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
You might want to look at apt-move or apt-cache also. These will allow
you to move the fle out of ~/archives to a more permanent location of
your choice. You paid to download them , might as well save them for use
again :)
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