Re: how to maintain /var on a debian system

[Gary Turner <kk5st@sbcglobal.net>]

Gary Turner wrote:

>nick lidakis wrote:
>
>... 
>>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:
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                ack! thhhhp! /etc/apt/apt.conf
Sorry about that.
>
>	Dir::Cache::Archives "/home/aptcache"
>
>My /home partition is plenty large.  /var is now sufficient for its
>files.
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