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Re: /var getting full



Check out /var/cache/apt/archives ... this is the default place apt puts 
downloaded packages. apt-get autoclean will clear out old packages, apt-get 
clean will delete all the packages and if you install apt-move, apt-move 
update will generate a local mirror for you using the packages in 
/var/cache/apt/archives. You can stick this mirror directory somewhere else 
with more room ... like /home if you like. 

Sean

On Saturday 03 March 2001 08:07, Dale Morris wrote:
> I just did a new cd install of 2.2. I have a 15g hard drive, 5g of which is
> a windoze partition, 5g for Linux and another 5 free space for BSD when I
> finally get around to installing it. I just started watching the disk
> contents, because I've set up disk partitions with 300megs for /var and
> /200 for /tmp. I am noticing that /var is now 70% full. Yesterday it was
> 46% and I went in and cleaned out all my big mail files, yet that made
> little difference. Is there something wrong here or is this normal /var
> behavior?
>
> Here's what the df command yields:
>
> Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3                94667     53227     36552  59% /
> /dev/hda5                94635       638     89110   1% /tmp
> /dev/hda6               283431    187954     80838  70% /var
> /dev/hda7              1922188    764500   1060040  42% /usr
> /dev/hda8              2402992    552172   1728756  24% /home
>
> thanks

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