Re: 97% use of / system

["Marcos Toro Oyarzo" <hola@marcostoro.name>]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:56 PM, andy <geek_show@dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> My / partition is some 12GB and I see that it is currently 97% full. How can
> I clean this out without trashing important files? What should I be looking
> for in terms of likely culprits that can be deep-sixed safely?
>
> Thanks
>
> Andy
>
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try with this:

# apt-get clean

and then verify the free space with: df -h

cheers,

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