Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system
nick lidakis wrote:
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>I dont have enough space to hold all the debs. df shows 92% used out
>a 300MB partition. /var seems to be slowly filling up, but what can
>I safely delete from var to trim it down?
Like you, I made the /var partition to small. Rather than repartition,
I made a directory /home/aptcache. Then in /etc/apt.conf put the line:
Dir::Cache::Archives "/home/aptcache"
My /home partition is plenty large. /var is now sufficient for its
files.
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