On Thursday 12 February 2004 16:37, Richard Lyons wrote: > Quick question re /var/cache/apt. I couldn't understand why my > little thinkpad's hdd got totally full. Now I'm searching around > with du and find / var/cache/apt is 1.4GB. Is it always that > large, or has mine been eating junk food? apt-get clean it sounds like your machine might be saving every .deb it downloaded.