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Re: root file system



Art Edwards <edwardsa@thuntek.net> wrote:
>As you will see from another post, /var is under root. I've been looking
>very hard there and I can't find a culprit. I have looked in most
>directories. Can you give me an idea of where, outside of mail, things
>in /var get big?

Try /var/lib/dpkg and /var/cache/apt. You probably shouldn't do anything
about the former (as it's your package database), but you can clean out
the latter with 'apt-get clean'.

[Followups set to debian-user.]

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]



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